No pensioner should have less than 2,000 lei a month. This is the objective Maia Sandu will make effort to achieve if she is elected President of the Republic of Moldova. “It’s too early to implement a realistic and right pension raising policy. We must start from raising the minimum pension so that this is higher than the poverty line,” the PAS leader was quoted by IPN as saying in a press briefing.

“It’s time to set the national objective of increasing the minimum pension to 2,000 lei. As the President, I will urge Parliament, regardless of the ideology of the parliamentary parties, to undertake this objective by a common decision of all the MPs.”

Maia Sandu said the 3 billion lei needed to increase the minimum pension to 2,000 lei will be taken from the liquidation of corruption schemes at state-owned enterprises and stopping of smuggling. The raising of pensions annually will also be possible after freeing the economy from abusive inspections, from monopolies. The attraction of investment and creation of jobs will contribute to increasing the pension fund in Moldova.

According to the politicians, during all these years the Party of Action and Solidarity asked to correct the pension system so that pensions could be raised to a level that would have enabled the people to live decently. The PAS insistently asked to valorize the pensions, but the process started only in 2018, with a great delay. “When I became Prime Minister, one of the first things I did was to hasten the process of recalculating pensions for those who work after retirement so that several tens of thousands of people benefitted from pension recalculation, their pension rising by 2,50 lei on average,” stated the PAS leader.

In Moldova, 387,000 people have a pension lower than 2,000 lei, while 180,000 of these have a pension lower than 1,200 lei. Almost 72% of the pensioners live below the absolute poverty line.