National Council for Road Traffic Safety to be reorganized, Moldova's Democratic Party says

Chisinau, 8 May /MOLDPRES/ - The National Council for Road Traffic Safety will be re-organized into a centre of coordination in the road traffic safety sector. The leader of the Moldovan Democratic Party (PDM), Vlad Plahotniuc, today made statements to this effect following a weekly meeting of the formation. Plahotniuc noted that he had demanded that the government works out an action plan meant to cut the number of traffic accidents.   

According to Plahotniuc, the party he leads will monitor the situation in terms of the road traffic safety, unless the things are definitively cleared up.   

“At the weekly meeting, we discussed the situation on the road traffic safety – a sector in which quite a few steps have been made and a full change of strategy and elaboration of a substantive working plan are necessary. Once, there was a National Council for Road Traffic Safety, a field in which a little was done and where change is needed. For this reason, I demanded that, at the level of the government, that council be reorganized into a coordination centre in the road traffic safety field, which is to come up with firm actions, with a concrete action plan for cutting the number of traffic accidents and enhancing the safety of our citizens. This is a project which Prime Minister Pavel Filip will coordinate and we expect that, on the next period, concrete steps will be made in this sector and the citizens will move safer on public roads,” the PDM leader said.  

He noted that changes would be made also in the work of the National Patrol Inspectorate. “Regretfully, cases have been signaled of policemen committing abuses against drivers who move correctly. What I found out is that policemen use as pretext topic-related actions, in order to justify the stopping of vehicles. Therefore, today I demanded that the Interior Ministry’s management checks why these abuses had re-appeared, who is guilty of the defective implementation of the concerned order and I asked the ministry to consider the sanctioning of the guilty people,” Plahotniuc said.     

The leader of the Democrats noted that he had demanded that the Interior Ministry ensures a better transparency of national campaigns and topic-related actions, the ministry organizes in the traffic, and communicate the following details on the institution’s webpage: subject, zone and period when the action took place, so that the character of preventing infringements has precedence, not the one of spying drivers or putting traps for them.

Statistics shows that more than 2,500 traffic accidents were registered in 2017, in the wake of which 300 people died.  

(Reporter A. Zara, editor M. Jantovan)