The companies should be offered the possibility of taking out loans from the state budget so as to maintain the businesses, while the people should be allowed to defer the payment of interest rates on loans to micro-finance companies for a month to six months. The initiatives were proposed by the Action and Solidarity Party (PAS), IPN reports.

In a news conference, ex-minister of finance Natalia Gavriliţa said that a number of citizens and business entities that in better times raised loans from micro-finance companies do not manage to pay interest during the pandemic and get penalties.

Members of the PAS asked the Government to treat the keeping of jobs and the access to finances for business entities as priorities during the crisis, when the revenues of the people and companies decrease.

MP Dan Perciun said that according to forecasts, after the state of emergency is lifted, over 40,000 jobs will be lost. For the people not to reach a state of poverty, the Government should give them a break of at least of six months to find another source of income and enable them to pay interest without penalty.

More than 650,000 people in Moldova applied for loans and the value of released loans comes to 7.8 billion lei, stated the PAS members.