Minister of Economy and Infrastructure Vadim Brînzan said the natural gas tariff since March 2018 has been maintained artificially. He told a news conference that the former government, instead of adjusting the tariff to the then realities, cut it because it had savings, but didn’t take into account the fact that the purchase price of natural gas supplied by Russia’s gas company Gazprom increased, IPN reports.

According to the minister, the political class had become involved a lot in the economic affairs during the past few years and this led to the distortion of economic processes, determining the artificial maintaining of tariffs. The public utility Moldovagaz already announced that the savings have been used up and the problem of tariffs is again in the focus. “The problem of tariffs existed in 2018 too, but was artificially controlled owing to the then politics,” stated Vadim Brînzan.

He informed that the authorities, together with Moldovagaz, have discussions with the development partners and with Gazprom so as to identify solutions. He reminded that the contract for the supply of gas with Gazprom expires at the end of this year and this should be renewed.