By not enacting the law that enables war veterans to receive free health insurance from the state, the parliamentary majority cheated them again, consider members of the Administration Board of the Tiras-Tighina – 1992 War Veterans Association.
“On July 16, 2020, the Parliament of the Republic of Moldova gave a second reading to the law that allows to provide the war veterans with health insurance policies. The Parliament Speaker found a reason and stopped the adoption of this law, saying it was voted illegally and sending it back to the legal commission,” the Association’s chairman Anatolie Caraman stated in a news conference at IPN.
“Earlier, in February, before commemorating on March 2 the heroes killed in the war for independence, the Prime Mister promised that the war veterans who do not work as of July 1 will be provided with free insurance policies by law. We didn’t ask all the war veterans to be issued with health policies, but only those who do not have a job,” said Anatolie Caraman.
According to him, on July 16, under the pressure of protesting veterans and a number of MPs, the law was adopted. But on September 11 Parliament, instead of transmitting it to the President for promulgation, sent it back to the legal commission for appointments and immunities.
Jurist Alexandru Banari, a member of Tiras-Tighina, said that if the law had been unconstitutional or had affected the rights of other persons, it wouldn’t have been adopted by Parliament.
As to the financial reason invoked by Prime Minister Ion Chicu, that there are no budget funds for covering the related costs, Alexandru Banari said there should be used the “hidden financial reserves” or the pensions of some of the state officials, or the money for maintaining the Presidential Building and the allocations for MPs.
Veteran Mihai Dîru, an inhabitant of Lunga village of Dubăsari district, complained that before coming to hospitals in Chisinau, they must be examined by a commission in Dubăsari. “We cannot walk freely or travel by car. We are pressed, followed and our rights are being violated,” he stated.
Tiras-Tighina deputy chairman Sergiu Tătaru made a call in the news conference. “During tens of years, groupings appeared among our comrades who sold themselves and continue to sell themselves to different political parties. Some of them just want awards or military ranks. We experience humiliation and embracement not only because of our officials, but also because of so-called veterans who solve personal problems when the problems of an invalid or veteran should be actually solved,” stated Sergiu Tătaru, calling upon all those who consider themselves veterans to analyze the things they do very well and not to become cowards and traitors of the real veterans.
