Cabinet members discuss problems faced by residents of north Moldova district

Chisinau, 15 November /MOLDPRES/ - Prime Minister Pavel Filip, accompanied  by the entire governmental team, today moved to the northern Drochia town, to discuss problems faced by the district’s residents. Pavel Filip invited the participants in the meeting, including local public authorities, to a sincere dialogue, urging them to also come up with proposals for developing communities.    

According to the government’s communication and protocol department, the PM said that this government, from the very beginning, had been focused on the settlement of the most pressing problems in the society, one of which is also the low pensions. In this respect, he noted, the pensions reform was carried out stage by stage, aimed at bringing fairness to the system, with a new formula of pensions’ calculation introduced. “The first pure increase will be starting from 1 January, when we will increase by ten per cent the pensions of the people who receive a pension under the subsistence minimum, i. e. less than 1,598 lei. This is the fruit of our work,” Pavel Filip said.     

The prime minister referred also to the law on wage payment in the budgetary sector, due to which more than 200,000 employees of the budgetary sector will receive higher salaries. “Due to this law, nobody will lose even one leu, nobody will get a salary lower than 2,000 lei. And what’s most important is that the salaries will increase annually,” the PM specified. The employees of the education system, the social one, as well as the technical staff will have the most significant increases.   

“We have never hidden from problems. Each time, we intervened with concrete actions to solve them,” Pavel Filip said, referring also to other reforms in the fiscal system, customs, health systems, as well as to measures to strengthen the banking system.   

The discussions were frank and constructive. The participants in the meeting also signaled more problems they face: lack of means for developing the infrastructure, farmers’ impossibility to use water from lakes for irrigation, pupils’ nourishment in schools. Central public authorities will consider the problems signaled and an action plan will be subsequently worked out to settle them.