Moldovan PM says next six months to be crucial for implementing reforms

Chisinau, 20 July /MOLDPRES/ - The next six months will be crucial for reforms’ implementation, Prime Minister Pavel Filip said in the opening of a today’s cabinet meeting. At the meeting, the PM made a review of the first six months of the mandate.   

“We should do our utmost not to allow the past crisis situations. Moldova will never afford the blocking of funds from development partners, it is not allowed to commit mistakes, frauds or be inefficient in using money. We have regained a part of investors’ trust; yet, we still have a lot of job to do,” the prime minister noted.   

The financing from abroad will be unlocked in the next months. In the context, the prime minister demanded that ministers, civil servants, district heads, mayors, district and local councilors spend the money in time and fairly. Who will commit mistakes in managing these funds, will be able to regard him/herself as lucky only if he/she loses only the office.”   

“We have a more difficult mission even than the one in the first six months – to put the country again on the good and correct road, on the European way,” Pavel Filip said.  

The prime minister said Moldova was different than in last January. The enforcement of the Roadmap on the agenda of reforms is “advanced enough” and will be fully carried out by 31 July. There is an expert level agreement on a new programme with IMF for Moldova, which will be signed next autumn.

“May be the most important thing, we have managed, in a short term, to stabilize the banking system, the one which triggered the tough economic blockage Moldova had passed through,” the PM also said. “The pensions have increased, industry is growing. The collections of revenues managed by the State Fiscal Service, as well as the ones managed by the Customs Service have increased by 1.364 billion lei. Measures were taken to improve the business environment, with the reform in the controls sector being suggestive. The central public administration reform has started,” Pavel Filip added.    

(Reporter V. Bercu, editor A. Raileanu)