Moldovan PM unveils activity report for first 100 days of mandate

Chisinau, 24 September /MOLDPRES/ - Prime Minister Maia Sandu today presented the government’s activity report for the first 100 days of mandate. The PM announced the principal achievements of the cabinet in the last months, as well as some failures.

Maia Sandu compared the situation found when taking over the mandate with “a ship drifting among rocks without water and food, ready to sink.” “And given that some people wander what we have managed to do in the first 100 days, we can presently say them that we have managed to get out of storm. We have water and food to survive,” Maia Sandu said.    

The prime minister noted that the new cabinet had given freedom to people and the state ceased being an instrument of coercing those who are criticizing the governance. At the same time, more corruption schemes have been discovered at state enterprises and fraudulent privatizations have been stopped, according to the prime minister.

The official also said that, in the first 100 days, important steps had been made in the justice reform, with an ambitious reform worked out, meant to clean the judicial system of vulnerable judges and prosecutors. At the same time, decision-makers have elaborated and approved amendments to the law on the Prosecutor General’s Office, “which open the way to the election of an independent, professional and upright Prosecutor General. 

Another result announced by Maia Sandu regards the “country’s getting out of international isolation.” “The re-establishment of the political dialogue and financial assistance on behalf of the development partners allowed us avoiding a major budgetary crisis. We have ended two evaluations within the programme with IMF and we got 46 million dollars. We have got 14.5-million-reuros-worth budgetary support from EU and we are on the way of receiving 60 million euros till the end of this year. We have unlocked grants worth 1.4 billion lei and loans of two billion lei in all,” Maia Sandu said.

The prime minister also said that she would like a quicker increase in salaries and pensions; yet, she stressed that “we have inherited a huge hole in the wake of the bank fraud, for which we must spend hundreds of millions of lei just this autumn.” 

The PM noted that the current government “is the most honest Moldova has ever had and it will continue fighting on the side of the citizens, being transparent and responsible.”    

The prime minister referred also to the failures registered in the 100 governance days. “I think that we wanted to move more quickly in all sectors. The speed of movement was much lower because of the situation we found,” Maia Sandu added.

The cabinet led by Maia Sandu was sworn in office on 8 June 2019.