The raising of citizens’ living standards and the solving of economic and social problems should be the Moldovan government’s priorities, said representatives of the extra-parliamentary opposition who accuse the ruling party of compromising the country’s European course. The accusations were made after the last public opinion poll showed that the number of citizens who want Moldova to join the EU decreased compared with 2021, IPN reports.
Secretary general of the Platform “Dignity and Truth Platform” Party Liviu Vovc said the priorities of the new session of Parliament should refer to the social problems of citizens, offering of cold-month allowances and raising of pensions and salaries.
“Parliament should focus on economic problems, on poverty in the Republic of Moldova. The last POB showed that over 60% of the citizens live from salary to salary. Also, the government should be preoccupied with the coming winter season. The Ministry of Labor already said that fewer people will get subsidies, but the gas rate remains 18 lei and it is not known if it will be decreased to a reasonable level that the people will be able to pay. But my highest hope is that the MPs will start work. I analyzed the work done during the spring session. 62 MPs didn’t initiate even one draft law. Out of these, 34 are from the PAS, while 28 are from the pro-Kremlin parties. My message to those from Parliament, who get rather high pays, with this money being taken away from children as the minister of agriculture says, should work. If they continue this way, the current Parliament will remain in history as the laziest one,” Liviu Vovc stated in the program “Emphasis on Today” on TVR Moldova channel.
For his part, the chairman of the European Social Democratic Party Ion Sula also expressed his dissatisfaction with the work done by the government and accuses the Party of Action and Solidarity (PAS) of ignoring citizens’ problems and of compromising the European course.
“Polls show the citizens are fully disappointed and desperate. If we compare the surveys, over 50% of the citizens earlier supported the entry into the European Union. Now the figure stands at 47% and fewer people want the country to join the European Union not because it is worth there now, but because the current government discredited this desideratum of the citizens. The country is depopulated. The people got poorer. The economy was brought to its knees. The indexation of pensions that is deserved by the citizens in accordance with the law wasn’t done. We reached a situation when most of the citizens think about leaving the Republic of Moldova. We, as an opposition party, came not with populist criticism, but with solutions. We want to lend a hand as we also live in this country. If they had listened to us and implemented the proposed solutions, we wouldn’t have been in the current situation,” said Ion Sula.
According to the Public Opinion Barometer (POB), 47% of the respondents want the Republic of Moldova to join the European Union. In 2021, the same figure stood at 56%. The poll was carried out during August 9-23 and covered a representative sample of 1,215 persons aged 18 and over from the Republic of Moldova. The margin of sampling error is at most +3%.
