More than 70% of the respondents of a poll carried out by the Institute for Marketing and Polls IMAS consider things in Moldova go wrong, while 22% consider the direction is good. 7% of those interviewed said they don’t know or didn’t answer. According to IMAS director general Doru Petrutsi, trends in the studies conducted since 2015 until the investiture of the current Government show a negative high was recorded three years ago, when 91% of those polled said the direction was wrong. Only 6% then said the direction was good. The results of the poll commissioned by the Foundation for a Modern Democracy were presented in a news conference at IPN.
“Several weeks after the investiture of the Government, at the start of 2016, things didn’t change significantly: 8% said the direction was good, while 88% said the direction was wrong. We could see only an improvement of several percentage points in the course of 2016 and the negativism continued during that year. An interesting thing happens before the presidential elections and especially after them, when the people consider things will change significantly in the country with the appointment of the President,” noted the IMAS director.
According to him, after the presidential elections 28% of those polled said the direction was good and 67% said the opposite and this was a record high for the good direction after a long period of time. But the situation continued for only six months and the percentage of those who considered things went well returned to 18-20% and later to 17%, in June 2018, following the Chisinau mayoral elections. After the events of the past three weeks, this indicator rose to 22% for the good direction and declined to 71% for the wrong direction.
Things concerning the economic situation develop rather slowly. Only 6% of those polled said they are satisfied or very satisfied with the economic situation. According to Doru Petrutsi, the economic developments are appreciated more in villages at a time when the municipalities should be with more economic activism. The negativism by this indictor remains rather high, at close to 80%.
Asked how satisfied they are with their living conditions, 23% of those surveyed said they live well and are satisfied, 29% are neither satisfied nor dissatisfied, while almost 50% are dissatisfied. Director of the Market Economy Institute Roman Chircă told the same news conference it was ascertained that the more general the question is, the greater is the dissatisfaction and level decreases when it is about revenuers and the personal situation.
Among the main problems faced by Moldova, the respondents mentioned unemployment, corruption, low salaries, excessive migration and others. Roman Chircă said that during many years, unemployment has taken a leading place, but statistics show the unemployment rate in 2018 stands at 3%, as opposed to about 17% in Spain or Portugal. Most probably, those who mentioned unemployment meant the lack of well paid jobs. The problems emphasized by the respondents can be related to personal well-being, quality of governance and general economic development.
The poll covered a sample of 1,475 respondents from 114 localities older than 18 and was conducted between October 20 and November 9 this year.
