Experts' group unveil new concept of administrative, territorial reform at Moldovan government
15:17 | 21.11.2018 Category: Official
Chisinau, 21 November /MOLDPRES/ - A group of experts today presented a new concept of the administrative and territorial reform and visions on the optimization of the public structures to Prime Minister Pavel Filip, the government’s communication and protocol department has reported.
The draft will stay at the basis of elaboration of the administrative and territorial reform and will contribute to the achievement of the main goal – maintaining the public services as close as possible to people’s needs.
The PM stressed that this reform needed to be tackled comprehensively; it should be well thought out and consulted in detail, as it deals with each citizen separately. “We want to prepare this reform well and fundamentally, so that we make sure that, once approved, we will be able to implement it quickly and efficiently. Therefore, it is very important that we proceed from a clear-cut concept,” Pavel Filip said.
The experts unveiled an analysis of the present infrastructure, as well as of the capacities of the local public administration (APL) in the territory. They said that currently more than 90 per cent of the mayors had no enough human capacity to cope with the tasks set and provide qualitative services to people. In most mayoralties, up to five people are employed. At the same time, the mayoralties also do not have the necessary financial capacity and work only with transfers from the state budget. In this respect, the experts proposed more solutions to increase the institutional, fiscal and social capacities of the public administration. They also presented options of economic and social development of Moldova’s settlements.
Following the presentation, the prime minister demanded developing the study made and identifying the best model of administrative and territorial reorganization. Presently, Moldova’s administrative and territorial structure comprises 898 first-level local public authorities and 35 second-level ones.
