PM says Moldovan governance makes no electoral presents, works much to have financial capacity to make social investments

Chisinau, 23 November /MOLDPRES/ - Prime Minister Pavel Filip, accompanied by the entire cabinet of ministers, today went to southern Cahul city to discuss problems faced by the people from this district, as well as listen to proposals to solve them, the government’s communication and protocol department has reported.   

„We have common problems in the country, accumulated during 27 years and the goal of this governance is to settle them. We started with the ones dealing with the small salaries and pensions, lack of physicians in villages, bad state of roads, as well as the lack of management of solid waste,” Pavel Filip said.   

In the context, the PM referred to the reforms implemented by the government, in order to solve these problems: fiscal reform, reform of the customs service, permissive acts, cutting the number of institutions with control duties, pensions’ reform. All these actions have constantly generated revenues to the state budget. This year alone, the collection of revenues grew by about two billion lei.       

Thus, the government had possibility to make social investments, by launching the First Home and Good Roads for Moldova programmes. At the same time, the cabinet has recently approved the law on wage payment in the budgetary sector and starting from 1 December, more than 200,000 budgetary employees will have higher salaries. “These are not electoral presents. We have worked a lot to have the financial capacity to make social investments,” Pavel Filip stressed.   

Also, the prime minister highlighted the determination to continue the reforms in the justice sector: “Both I and my colleagues are not contented with the situation in justice. Yet, we have no other instruments of intervention but the amendment of the legal framework, in order not to leave room for the interpretation of laws.”   

During the discussions, the sides tackled more problems: lack of roads’ infrastructure, need to restore kindergartens, insufficiency of financing for pupils in schools. In particular, the participants in the meeting referred to the necessity to ensure the security in the use of gas cylinders, noting that an action plan had been already worked out to this end. All the problems approached have been noted and are to be systematized to find the best solutions.