El principio de transparencia como elemento vertebrador del Estado Social y Democrático de derecho

Abstract

To ensure a better fulfi llment of transparency in the way of acting in the public organizations has been one of the goals different international regulators have pursued in the last few years as a way of distinguishing between Democracies and Dictatorial countries and a measure that strengthens one of the most important pillars in which those democratic countries are based: citizen participation. Leaving apart UK and USA, far ahead in this type of regulation, a great majority of the European countries have already passed a transparency act as a result of that. Spain is one of the few that has not yet. However, the current Spanish Government has sent in july 2012 a bill to the parliament to be passed but the substance and form of that bill in the way it is made now is clearly insuffi cient to ensure the true role transparency should comply as the backbone of a social and democratic state of law.