The Employers Association of Transport Professionals “Transportatorul” supports the protest announced by the Employers Association of Road Transport Operators and will joint in this by stopping the served regular routes on February 7-9, IPN reports.

“It should be noted that this protest is mounted because passenger transportation in the current conditions cannot be ensured,” the Association said in a press release. Its representatives noted the Ministry of Infrastructure and Regional Development’s tactic to shift responsibility for the transport policies onto the local public administration is incorrect. “The mayors mostly realize this stratagem of the Ministry, which will end with direct conflicts between mayors and residents, and categorically deny the provocative and unrealizable ideas of the Ministry,” said the carriers.

The Employers Association of Road Transport Operators announced that road transport operators in Moldova will suspend the national regular routes for three days, on February 7, 8 and 9, in protest. In reaction, Deputy Prime Minister Andrei Spînu, Minister of Infrastructure and Regional Development, said that “a small group of transport operators started to blackmail a whole country. The goal is clear. They want the passengers to protest. This is ugly. I call on all the operators not to allow to be provoked by such behavior,” stated the official.