The authorities plan to nationalize particular strategic facilities. At the beginning of the Cabinet’s meeting on Monday, Prime Minister Dorin Recean instructed Minister of Justice Veronica Mihailov-Moraru to prepare, in three weeks, an amendment to the legislation on the nationalization of strategic facilities. However, he did not specify the facilities as the statement was made in the context of the discussions on the energy crisis, IPN reports.
"We are doing our homework to definitively get rid of any blackmail instrument and, in this connection, Minister Veronica Mihailov-Moraru, during the next three weeks, we should review all the legislation on nationalization so that we take measures particularly where we have strategic assets and which, by the way, were taken over in the same way, by force and blackmail. We need to recover our assets," said Dorin Recean.
The head of government also responded to the assertions of some of the politicians, calling them "buffoons and political speculators of the Kremlin", who, according to Recean, are trying to bring the Government to the situation where it puts on the shoulders of citizens a "non-existent debt" of over US$700 million.
"It is for the first time that we have politicians who blame their own state for the problems created from outside. This debt does not exist. The money may have been spent on yachts, on vacations, but it was not spent by the citizens of the Republic of Moldova. I want to remind these buffoons that now it does not go to politics or parties. Now we are talking about patriotism, about the state, about dignity," said the official.
The Russian gas company Gazprom announced that from January 1, 2025, it will reduce the amount of gas for the Republic of Moldova to zero. The company invoked the Moldovan side’s refusal to honor its debt payment obligations. In a letter to Moldovagaz, the Russian company mentions "the systematic non-payment of debts" and "essential deviations from the contract provisions".
