The Liberal Democratic Party of Moldova (PLDM) says that the steps taken by the Government to manage the crisis situation caused by the halt in the natural gas supply are delayed, inefficient and non-transparent. In a statement quoted by Info-Prim Neo, the PLDM says that the Commission for Emergencies convened with delay and only made certain assessments as regards the development of the crisis and coordinated the use of the available supplies with the thermoelectric plants. The Commission’s meetings were non-transparent, while the population is not informed about the proportions of the crisis and its risks. According to PLDM, the energy crisis reveals the lack of a coherent strategy for insuring the country’s energy security. As the need to have alternative energy resources for crisis situations was neglected, the energy system is now on the brink of a collapse. The impossibility of providing the people with heat and alternative energy resources, the closure of the schools and medical institutions, the halt in the work of a large number of economic unities and the deterioration of the heating systems are only some of the possible consequences of the crisis. Given the seriousness of the situation and the possible effects of the crisis on the population and national economy, the PLDM calls on the Government to work out and make public a plan of measures aimed at overcoming the crisis situation, to immediately convene the commissions for emergencies working in the territorial-administrative units of all levels; to insure the smooth running of all the state institutions; to set up mobile groups composed of representatives of the Government and specialists in the field of energy and heat that would provide assistance to the territorial-administrative units, budget-financed institutions and the people; to take immediate action to provide the power and heating systems with alternative resources (crude oil, coal, wood, diesel oil and others); to supply the social institutions, primarily the medical-sanitary institutions, the boarding schools and old people’s homes, with heat; to offer the necessary assistance to the socially vulnerable groups of people: solitary old persons, children that remained without parental care, families in need; to provide medical assistance to the people that cannot cope with the effects of the heating crisis; to create temporary placement centers for the persons affected by the crisis; to insure the fast and truthful informing of the people about the development of the crisis and the measures taken to cope with it, through the national public broadcaster Teleradio-Moldova. The PLDM also calls upon the Head of Parliament Marian Lupu to immediately call an extraordinary sitting of the Parliament to hear the Government’s report on the steps taken and to make the decisions needed to overcome the crisis in the energy sector.