It’s not easy to be minister of finance in a country like Moldova, where the period of transition has lasted for too long, the new Minister of Finance Anatol Arapu  told the press after the Government’s meeting, quoted by IPN. Arapu said it was hard for him to take such a decision, but he accepted the proposal of the PLDM chairman Vlad Filat and Prime Minister Iurie Leanca after analyzing things.

“It’s a team that set clear goals and many good things can be done together with them. I know many members of the Cabinet and I’m confident that these people can achieve rather ambitious objectives. I worked together with many of them. I worked with Prime Minister Leanca and the discussions with Filat were crucial in taking the decision,” he stated.

As to the objectives and priorities in the new post, Arapu said the reforms launched by the governmental team must be continued and finalized.

“We will have to deal with serious challenges, including to draft and table the state budget law for the next year. We must administer the affairs carefully, based on the interests of the relations between our country and the development partners. We have a heavy workload, but I’m sure that we will cope, together with the other members of the team. The people should know how the state and local budget resources are collected. The money must be more efficiently and transparently spent,” he added.

Atatol Arapu substituted Veaceslav Nerguta as minister of finance on August 14. In autumn, Apapu will turn 51. He held the post of minister of finance in the Sturza Government (1998-1999). Over the last few years, he had worked in a subdivision of the Russia company Lukoil in Romania.