Moldovan PM visits northern district

Chisinau, 13 February /MOLDPRES/ - Prime Minister Ion Chicu today paid a visit to the northern Sangerei district, where he had a meeting with representatives of the local public authorities (APL) – the leadership of the district and district departments, mayors and local councilors, the government’s communication and protocol department has reported.   

Ion Chicu informed APL representatives about the results recorded in the national economy in 2019 and the tendencies noticed as to the collection of revenues in the budget in January 2020. “The 2019 year was full of political unrest; three governments changed and two electoral campaigns were held. Despite this fact, Moldova ended the year with a deficit of 1.4 percentage points and we managed to cut the public debt to the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) by 1.9 percentage points, to 25.2 percentage points,” the PM said.  

The prime minister also referred to social problems, such as the people leaving Moldova, the urgent need to industrialize the country and bring more opportunities of employment for young people in all Moldovan districts. To attract investments into the country’s industrialization, the government planned massive public investments in the road infrastructure for 2020. To enhance the living standards in settlements, about one billion lei will be invested for the repair of roads within settlements and other resources will allocated for the construction of networks of aqueducts and sewerage and about 140 million lei – for streets’ illumination.  

Ion Chicu tackled the issue of unauthorized waste deposits and touched upon the project promoted by the cabinet: “We enjoy the support of partners from the European Union and we will build an infrastructure for the collection and processing of solid waste. Yet, we must also impose sanctions against those who throw waste anywhere and focus on residents’ education to this end.”   

In the discussions with the PM, the APL representatives approached the subjects of roads in settlements and streets’ illumination, the problem of constraints in the subsidization of activities of processing farming products, the issue of young people leaving villages, subsidization of jobs, programmes on encouraging young people, such as the First Home and allowances provided to young specialists who accept working in rural zones.

Prime Minister Chicu received in audience residents of the Sangerei district in the building of the district council.  

The PM visited the company Gelibert and the mayoralty of the Bilicenii Vechi village, where he had a discussion with a group of people from this settlement.