Moldovan PM says government to continue reforms to collect money in budget, make social investments

Chisinau, 20 July /MOLDPRES/ - The central authorities’ enhanced attention towards problems in settlements and the openness for a constructive dialogue to overcome these problems today was reiterated at a joint meeting of cabinet members and representatives of the local public authorities (APL) from the southern Taraclia district. Prime Minister Pavel Filip said that the governmental team would discuss directly with people from those 26 settlements of this district and would make efforts to find an as efficient as possible formula for modernizing the region, the government’s communication and protocol department has reported.   

„We have set the goal to intervene in a new format in the settlement of difficulties you are facing. There are a lot of speculations and therefore, it is important that we have an open and permanent communication with you. I am sure that those who presently criticize us do this only because the reforms will soon yield results hard to be contested,” Pavel Filip said.

In discussions, the PM stressed that, on the last period, the government’s work had been oriented to priority directions for Moldova’s development: ensuring the economic growth, improvement of the business environment and carrying out reforms with major impact on citizens. Thus, we have carried out the pension system reform – an absolutely needed measure, to exclude social inequities. The calculation formula has been changed, the pensions are calculated in stages and for the first time ever, the average pension exceeded the subsistence minimum.    

„The reforms will continue – we need to accumulate a solid budget, which is to allow us making investments, including social ones,” Pavel Filip said. He noted that the priorities remain the continuation of the reforms in the health and education systems, improving the energy infrastructure and carrying out social projects, such as the First Home and Goods Roads for Moldova.    

The APL representatives proposed to extend the programme on improving the infrastructure. They highlighted more sectors in which the cabinet’s support is needed: financing education institutions, filling the deficit of teachers, teaching the Romanian and Bulgarian language in pre-school institutions, improving the system of wage payment for public sector employees, providing schools and kindergartens with qualitative food products. In particular, the local public authorities from Taraclia emphasized the necessity to repair the school from the Aluatu village, for which the government has already earmarked 300,000 lei.   

The prime minister said that many of the problems tackled were in the focus of the authorities. He demanded that the institutions in charge intervene in each case separately, according to the fields within their competence, in order to find the best solutions to solve the problems.