Communist MPs accuse central administration of indifference to youth

Representatives of the Communists Party (PCRM) accuse the government of Moldova of lack of care for the youth, Info-Prim Neo reports. In a news conference on Tuesday, MPs Inna Supac and Natalia Vysotina, who are members of the parliamentary commission for culture, eduction, youth and sport, said that Minister of Education Leonid Bujor and Minister of Youth and Sport Ion Ceban cannot share between them the National Center for Children and Youth build by the PCRM. “The PCRM draws attention to the fact that the present administration started to distribute the infrastructure facilities without defining first the powers, abilities and responsibilities of the two ministries. Not even as members of the parliamentary commission for culture and youth do we know how the two institutions shared the responsibilities of the former Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport, a month after the creation of the two ministries. Probably only the two ministers know this, but this information should be made known,” Supac said. According to the MP, the social services must be integrated at the central and local levels, but the authorities dismember them. “Without examining thoroughly the conception of the National Center for Children and Youth, they try to appropriate it. The two ministers do not have an official position yet – Bujor says one thing, Ceban says another thing, while the Alliance for European Integration keeps silence. Instead of dividing the infrastructure facilities, the two should concentrate their efforts on the development of the youth policies. Such centers exist only in Strasbourg and in Budapest. The former government has allocated over 100 million lei for building it,” Supac also said. Supac and Vysotina condemn the two ministers' attempt to limit the activity of the Center to extra-curricula activities, eliminating the youth dimension. According to Vysotina, there are 82 creation centers for children and youth in the country and their activity is neither controlled nor systematized. It is the function of the National Center to coordinate the work of the local centers. The two MPs also said that the Ministry of Youth and Sport has not yet created its official website and that no plans were made for celebrating the Student Day on November 17.