Moldovan speaker announces government reform to be adopted by parliamentary session's end

Chisinau, 04 July /MOLDPRES/ – By the end of the parliamentary session, the Legislature will adopt the law on the Government and approve the new structure of the Executive. The announcement was made by the speaker Andrian Candu at the end of the weekly session of the Democratic Party of Moldova (PDM) today.

According to Candu, reform is not just a law, it is a complex system of measures, the first being the approval of the law on the Government in Parliament.

"The old law is still in 1990-1991, during the Soviet Union, and has not been amended and completed for many years, and is no longer true. The new law of the Government provides for new skills and mechanisms, so as to ensure good governance. After the adoption of the document, Prime Minister Pavel Filip will come up with a new structure to be debated in Parliament," said Candu.

He was puzzled by the criticisms in Parliament, as the document on government reform was drafted with the support of European experts and had a European expertise. "The next period will be a transition from the old to the new structure of the Executive," said Candu.

At the end of last week, deputies voted in the first reading the Law on the Government. The document was criticized by several Socialists, Communists and Liberal Democrats.

According to the project, the position of Deputy Minister will be excluded from the reform, and the administrative duties on the activity of the ministries will be ensured by the state secretaries, who will, if necessary, fulfill the interim duties of the ministers. The document voted in first reading describes the functions, powers, areas of activity of the Government and regulates the way of exercising the interim function of Prime Minister, first deputy prime minister, deputy prime minister and minister. The Act further stipulates that following the reform of the Executive, the position of Deputy Prime Minister for Economic Affairs will be ruled out. Another amendment provides for the Prime Minister to be empowered to amend the list of ministries through a simplified procedure.

The document does not indicate the number of ministries that will be active in the reform, nor the agencies, but earlier Prime Minister Pavel Filip pointed out that the Government of Moldova intended to activate since 2017 with nine ministries and 50 agencies.

(Reporter A. Zara, editor A. Raileanu)