Moldovan PM takes part in public meeting of Finance Ministry's enlarged college

Chisinau, 3 February /MOLDPRES/ - Prime Minister Ion Chicu today participated in a public meeting of the enlarged college of the Finance Ministry (MF) – the first one of 2020. Attending the event were Deputy Prime Minister Serghei Puscuta, Ministers Anatol Usatii and Ion Perju, more state secretaries and the heads of the State Fiscal Service, Customs Service, public institution, Centre of Information Technologies in Finance (IP CTIF), of the Financial Inspection, Public Procurements Agency, public institution, State Chamber for Marking Supervision, the government’s communication and protocol department has reported.       

Deputy Prime Minister Puscuta unveiled the Finance Ministry’s activity report for 2019, noting more figures showing the intensity and complexity of the processes managed by the MF’s team. The Finance Ministry’s team interacts with 8,027 public institutions and 2,320 non-budgetary organizations, processes the payment of salaries for about 175,000 public sector employees and processed 6.3 million payment orders during the last year.     

„In 2019, the budgetary and fiscal policy was aimed at creating an efficient framework of collecting revenues and earmarking of resources needed for national programmes and spending in the health, education and social sectors, as well as public investments meant for stimulating the economic growth. As a result of the efforts made, the preliminary results of the budgetary exercise for 2019 year show that the overall revenues of the national public budget amounted to 62.9 billion lei, up by 8.5 per cent (4.9 billion lei) against 2018,” Serghei Puscuta said.    

Referring to the 2020 year, the deputy prime minister noted that the MF’s action plan had at its basis 21 goals, for the achievement of which actions had been defined and their carrying out is to be monitored based on pre-established result indices. Among the strategic objectives for 2020, Puscuta mentioned the extension of the programme on compensation of real estate loans accessed outside the First Home state programme; continuing the cooperation at the level of promoting the reforms in the field of national policies with IMF and other development partners; payment on term and fully of the salaries of the public sector employees; adoption of the fiscal and customs policy for 2021 till 31 July 2020; development of the system of electronic register of employees; modernization of the public procurements system.    

The Finance Ministry’s state secretary, Iuri Pasinschi, the heads of the State Fiscal Service, Customs Service and IP CTIF also made presentations at the college.

After the reports had been heard, Ion Chicu said: “I am happy to participate in the meeting of the College. I wanted to come to the summing-up meeting of the 2019 year. A year when we went through two electoral campaigns and political crises. The report shows that, despite the circumstances, the revenues grew by 15 billion lei. The 2019 year shows that the national economy has a good potential to generate resources for financing the needs of the country and people.”  

The PM thanked the MF’s team for the dedicated work and asked Deputy Prime Minister Puscuta to unveil updated information on the collection of revenues in January 2020. Serghei Puscuta said that, in last January, by 565 million lei (15 per cent) more had been collected than in the same month of 2019 and on 30 January 2020, there was 4.622 billion lei in the accounts of all public institutions.    

Ion Chicu said that, on 31 December 2019, the share of public debt in the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) had decreased by 1.9 per cent against 31 December 2018.  

The prime minister demanded that, till 1 June 2020, all public procurements be carried out only by the companies which had applied the E-invoice. As for the creation of conditions for attracting people who left abroad, Ion Chicu stressed the importance of extending the First Home programme and mechanisms of subsidizing jobs. He specified that Moldova must cease being a donor of qualitative and efficient labour force.    

The prime minister referred also to the poor efficiency of the management of state enterprises and stock companies with state capital and urged the MF team to determine the enhancement of the managerial efficiency.