The Communist Party (PCRM) this week will mount a protest to demand annulling the decision to optimize-liquidate pre-university education institutions and reviewing the Education Code, IPN reports.

Communist MP Ina Supac told a news conference that there is the danger the education system will be destroyed. The formation of the young generation and, consequently, the whole state construction will be thus affected.

“In 2014, the investments in education from the state budget decreased to 7.2% of the GDP, compared with 9.2% in 2009. The policy to support the most important sectors for the development of the state was replaced with the optimization and liquidation of education institutions, dismissal of personnel and suspension of programs to provide the young specialists from rural areas with dwellings. All these taken together and the disastrous Baccalaureate exam results do nothing but worsen the social problems, increase the number of those who leave the country and create a shortage of qualified staff,” she stated.

The PCRM calls on the current government to offer the local authorities the right to decide whether to create or liquidate pre-university education institutions. According to the party, it’s not normal for the Ministry of Education to decide such matters.

Ina Supac said she sent a letter to the head of the parliamentary commission on culture, education, research, youth, sport and mass media Chiril Lucinschi and asked him to stage a meeting where to question Minister of Education Maia Sandu over the methods of influencing directors of education institutions to modify the institutions’ status.