Moldovan parliament speaker, PM present report on implementing Roadmap on priority reforms agenda

Chisinau, 1 August /MOLDPRES/ - Parliament Speaker Andrian Candu and Prime Minister Pavel Filip presented a report on carrying out the Roadmap on priority reforms agenda at a news conference today, the parliament’s communication and public relations department has reported.   

According to the speaker, as many as 74 actions out of all 82 scheduled ones have been carried out. At the same time, another eight actions are under implementation; it is about the package of laws on strengthening the financial and banking system, audiovisual code and law of integrity in public service. The concerned draft laws are to be completed, as well as consulted with the development partners, and are to be passed at the parliament’s autumn session.   

“The report on implementation of the Roadmap contains both the progress report and everything that has been implemented during five months in terms of laws and decisions, both in parliament and government. This was a consolidated effort, and the Roadmap was a good instrument of mobilization, both at the institutional level between parliament and government and for the other institutions involved. We are set to continue in the same accelerated pace and in full cooperation with all institutions, in order to succeed. There are nice achievements, but we still have a much to do to bring well-being to citizens; yet, we have surely managed to bring stability,” the parliament speaker said.

For his part, PM Pavel Filip said that, with the implementation of the Roadmap, Moldova had regained the trust of the development partners, and this provides a clear-cut perspective to Moldova in its economic development.   

“The government, jointly with the parliament, assumed clear commitments before the development partners, measurable commitments, limited in time, that were focused on the most important fields – justice reform, fighting corruption, Prosecution reform, press freedom, financing parties. This was a document, by which we may say that Moldova is a rule of law state, within which law and supremacy of law are at the head of the table, so that all partners trust Moldova. The goal was to bring Moldova back on the map of investments, so that it becomes attractive for investors,” Pavel Filip said.   

Andrian Candu also said that, along with Prime Minister Pavel Filip, he had signed a letter to European Commissioners Federica Mogherini and Johannes Hahn, thereby informing them about the actions carried out by the parliament and government, in line with the commitments taken in the Roadmap. At the same time, the speaker said that, in August, a new Roadmap or a plan of priority actions would be developed, in order to assess the legislative impact and the efficiency of the packages of laws passed.   

In the context, the speaker thanked the civil society for constructive collaboration in carrying out the Roadmap and improving the legislative framework. Andrian Candu said that the parliament’s Standing Bureau had recently adopted a decision, which establishes a string of measures of strengthening cooperation between parliament and civil society within the decision-taking process. In particular, it is about the setting up of a working group, that will develop amendments to improve the legislative framework to enhance the decision-making transparency and revise the Strategy of Civil Society Development.  

The first ordinary parliament session of 2016 ended on 29 July. The parliament will convene at the autumn session starting from 1 September, and the first plenary meetings will be organized in early next September.

The Roadmap on priority reforms agenda is a document worked out and approved by parliament and government in early last March. The document represents a consolidated list of measures and commitments, which were to be implemented till 31 July 2016, in order to overcome the challenges contained in the Conclusions of the European Union Foreign Affairs Council from 15 February 2016, as well as of the concerns of the development partners and civil society.

(Editor L. Alcaza)