Business associations ask Premier to support reforms

A number of Moldovan business associations requested Prime Minister Vlad Filat to make effort to really promote structural reforms, not only speak about them, Info-Prim Neo reports. According to a communiqué from the Institute for Development and Social Initiative “Viitorul”, the business associations on July 11 sent a letter to the Premier, whereby they ask for assistance in implementing reforms in the legal system and economy. The 30 signatories express thus their concern about the selective justice that undermines trust in the state of law and in the correctness of the national legal system. ”We will continue to draw up the legislative ‘agenda’ and will periodically monitor how it is implemented. We think that the business associations, as the community of experts, are an integral part of Moldova’s civil society and we plead for an open and direct dialogue,” reads the letter. The business associations point to the weakness and inefficiency of the institutions of power, which, according to the signatories of the letter, cannot create equitable conditions and healthy competition for all the participants in the market. They express their dissatisfaction with the intensification of repression and the accusing way in which the power treats the businesses. The signatories are participants in the dialogue held under the National Business Agenda. The communication platform was created in 2008 in order to establish closer relations between the business sector and decision makers. The National Business Agenda is supported by the National Confederation of Employers, the Chamber of Trade and Industry and other unaffiliated associations. The strengthening and promotion process was facilitated by the Institute for Development and Social Initiative “Viitorul” with support from the Center for International Private Enterprise.