A police reform is needed in the Republic of Moldova, considers the leader of the Party “Action and Solidarity” (PAS) Maia Sandu. Through Facebook live, she said that Moldova didn’t have governments that would want to transform the national police according to the European model. “In the meetings I have in districts, small entrepreneurs, persons who sell at the market or go to the market complain that heavy fines are imposed on them and a lot of people are this way harassed with such fines,” stated the politician, being quoted by IPN.
Maia Sandu also said that the police sometimes abuse the law and impose these fines on people who didn’t violate anything. President Igor Dodon broke the rules for many times without being penalized. “The Government expects the people to know these rules, while Igor Dodon considers that he should not obey the law and should not know the rules,” she noted, adding that representatives of the PAS filed a complaint to the police, asking for explanations why the President is not penalized. The PAS MPs this week will propose reviewing down the size of these fines.
Asked by an Internet user what first thing she will do if she is elected President, Maia Sandu said she will first of all reduce the budget of the presidential office as 100,000 lei is daily spent on maintaining Igor Dodon. As to the possibility of this autumn’s elections being rigged, she enumerated the possible involved risks, including massive buying of votes in the Transnistrian region, electoral gifs, use of administrative resources, propaganda through the media and illegal financing of the election campaign.
“Igor Dodon should know that he has no chance to get office the second time by fraud and to keep it as he evidently cannot get this post by free and fair elections.”
Maia Sandu noted that by deciding to go to Moscow to take part in the parade there together with a group of soldiers amid the pandemic, when the number of infections in Russia is rather high, President Dodon exposes the young service members to major risks. As to the epidemiological situation in Moldova, she said that the situation went out of control after the Government kept the people at home during two months and did nothing meanwhile.
Asked if the assistance that comes to the country is distributed to drugstores, the politician said the aid should normally reach the hospitals or the people. “The PAS MPs made approaches to the Ministry of Health so as to learn where the donations that came mainly from the foreign partners are. We didn’t get responses or received very vague answers. We will insist on receiving responses and will insist that a commission should be set up in Parliament to examine the Government’s work during the state of emergency. But a number of 51 votes of MPs are needed to create this commission,” stated Maia Sandu.
She noted that if this commission is constituted, the MPs, including the opposition ones, will have access to more information and could know exactly what happened to the assistance, why particular measures haven’t been taken on time and why the hospitals weren’t supplied with protective equipment from the very beginning.
