Persons representing public interest should be politicians elected to a public office or officers appointed to perform public duties. Non-elected politicians who are party members only should not be eligible for supervisory boards of companies serving public interest.
If no politicians who are party members only, but are not elected to any public function could be elected to supervisory boards of companies providing services of public interest, it would be possible to prevent that those enterprises are managed in the interest of owners of companies contracting with those enterprises and political parties that ensured to those persons the posts in supervisory boards.
Sources:
- Transparency International Czech Republic, Conflict of interest – Czech Republic [online], p. 5
- Vondráček, O., Havrda, M., 21 recipes – Anti-corruption cookbook, Recipe 14: Supervisory boards of companies serving public interest, December 2013
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