Prime Minister Pavel Filip said he will take part in the election campaign prior to the February 24, 2019 parliamentary elections and will simultaneously hold office as Premier as the legislation allows for this. The Prime Minister made the announcement in the talk show “Moldova live” on the public TV channel “Moldova 1”, IPN reports.

Pavel Filip said a decision as to the constituency where he will run will be taken the next few days. Asked where he would like to run, the Premier said the elections for him are far yet and he aims to achieve the set goals until then.

As to Moldova’s relationship with the EU in 2018, Pavel Filip said the invalidation of the local mayoral elections in Chisinau was only a pretext for deteriorating the relations with Moldova. In fact, the resolution adopted recently by the European Parliament, where Moldova is criticized, expressed rather a political attitude in support of particular politicians or parties by creating a poor impression as to the state of affairs in the country, making thus the people to vote the opposition. The disbursement of the macro-financial assistance was delayed long before the Chisinau mayoral elections.

As to the advantages that Moldova could enjoy during Romania’s presidency of the Council of the EU, Pavel Filip said transfrontier projects, such as the railway project, could be developed and a high-speed Chisinau-Bucharest train route could be launched. Also, Moldova could obtain clearer prospects as to the European integration.

Speaking about the most important results achieved by the Government during the past three years, the Premier noted the stabilization of the economic situation, Government reform, reform of the central public administration, rise in salaries and pensions, reformation of the Customs Service and Tax Service, attraction of foreign investment, including to the banking sector, and others. The education sector reform is a priority for the future.

He stated that more work is yet to be done in the justice sector and in the fight against corruption. However, the people and the foreign partners should be aware that things in these areas do not change swiftly. Pavel Filip noted he would like a group of EU experts to come to Moldova to analyze the situation in the justice sector and concerning corruption and to work out a roadmap based on which things would move on.