Spain maintains its score (60/100) compared to last year, in the Corruption Perception Index (CPI) that Transparency International (TI) published this Tuesday. Even so, it drops one place in the world ranking, to position itself as the thirty-seventh country in transparency.
There are already four positions less compared to the 2020 CPI, which places Spain below Portugal (61), with the same score as Latvia (60) and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (60), and above Botswana (59 ), Qatar (58), Czech Republic (57), Dominica (56) and Italy (56)
According to the study, corruption in Spain continues to be a “serious problem that should put citizens and public authorities on alert,” and points to the need to implement transparency and accountability procedures and controls. It also highlights the need to "recover the proper functioning of public institutions", among which the renewal of the General Council of the Judiciary stands out.
Likewise, the analysis highlights that the country must implement a reform of the Transparency Law, eliminate the golden visa program (Golden Visas), improve parliamentary transparency and create a mandatory interest group registry.
Denmark continues to lead the ranking with 90 points, for the sixth consecutive year, along with Finland (87) and New Zealand (85), while South Sudan (13), Syria (13), Venezuela (13) and Somalia (11) , affected by armed conflicts, are at the bottom of the table.
