Approximately 50% of the population believes the Government didn’t efficiently implement the energy compensation program. 42% consider the program was implemented in the most efficient way possible, while 8% didn’t know how to respond, shows a survey conducted by the sociological company IData, which was commissioned by the Institute for Strategic Initiatives (IPIS).

In a news conference hosted by IPN, Veronica Ateș, IData executive vice president, said that among the causes for the Government’s failure to implement the program, the citizens mentioned the fact that the incomes and costs of families weren’t correctly assessed and that the sum allocated for compensations was too small.

IPIS executive director Vadim Pistrinciuc said the data show the people approve of the fact that that compensations are provided, but believe that the assistance could have been better targeted as someone with larger incomes benefit from compensations equal to those paid to persons with lower incomes.

The people said that it was preferable not to raise the gas charge. Also, a large part of the citizens heat their homes with wood and it is one thing to get meter assistance and it is something else to receive compensations for firewood as the process in the second case is more difficult.

Asked about the funds for implementing the energy compensation program for 2022-2023, with the question being with multiple answers, about 50% of those polled said the compensation was possible thanks to the EU’s funds and support, slightly over 31% - thanks to state budget allocations, over 22% - due to loans raised from  international financial institutions. More than 14% of the respondents didn’t know how to answer this question.

Some 33% of those surveyed said the people they know were assigned a vulnerability degree incorrectly and the really poor people didn’t get the appropriate compensations. 24% said the compensation was offered correctly. 29% believe the vulnerability degree wasn’t determined correctly and people with greater financial possibilities received compensations that they shouldn’t have gotten. Over 13% didn’t know how to answer this question.

Vadim Pistrinciuc believes it is normal for the people to want crises not to exist so that the trade with all the countries was possible, but realize the impact of the war and take this into account. The people tie the rise in prices to the war as well and consider that the deterioration in the economic relations with the Russian Federation is also a result of the war.

The data were collected through face-to-face interviews during August 16 – September 5. The survey covered a representative sample of 1,130 persons older than 18 from Moldova. The margin of sampling error is at most 2.9%.

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