Opening Romanian labor market for Basarabians: part of Anatol Munteanu's electoral bid

Opening a labor bourse in Romania for Romanians living abroad is one of the electoral offers of Anatol Munteanu which is to be elected by Romanian citizens from Moldova in the Deputies Chamber of the Bucharest Parliament. Running for the New Generation Party (PNG) from Romania, Anatol Munteanu announced his electoral bid at a news conference hosted by Info-Prim Neo Agency. One of the members of Anatol Munteanu's team, businessman Octavian Muntean, stated that he reached the conclusion that the access to information is not there both for the Moldovans willing to work in Romania, and for the Romanian employers. “The most simple solution that we see is creating a labor bourse for the Moldovan citizens,” Octavian Muntean said. The candidate views making this bourse on the Internet. He will back any legislative initiative in the Romanian Parliament concerning issuing work permits for Romanians outside Romania. Referring to the issue of getting the Romanian citizenship by Romanians from abroad, Anatol Munteanu says he will promote a new legal frame to simply the process. He will also start a collective trial, in the name of all the Romanians from abroad, who asked but failed to receive the Romanian citizenship. “This list of one thousand applications will be posted on a web site as people will be able to register on it. We'll establish a token fee of 1 euro to pay the court costs. We've got a team of lawyers in Romania specialized namely in this kind of collective and international trials. We'll start in the Romanian courts and, if unsuccessful, we go to European courts,” another member of Anatol Munteanu's team, doctor of medicine Adrian Bors said at the conference. Munteanu says he got the offer to run for the New Generation Party from a team of renowned Romanian intellectuals. He says he was assured by the leader of the PNG leader, Gigi Becali, that, in case he wins the poll, the renowned philanthropist will use his money “for economic-commercial relations, to create jobs, to massively enter Moldova.” The candidate says Becali is the only Romanian politician who gave money to Moldovan combatants, in 2007, and helped some of them needing treatment and wheelchairs. According to Anatol Munteanu, Gigi Becali has promised him he will build 40 churches in Basarabia, too, will build roads and houses. In case he becomes a member in the lower chamber of the Romanian parliament, Anatol Munteanu will support opening offices to provide consulting to small and medium businesspeople and farmers in Iasi, Galati and Bucharest to ease the access of Moldovan produce to the Romanian and European markets. Anatol Munteanu will propose a legislative initiative in the Bucharest Parliament concerning the recognition of the ones having fought in the Romanian Army in WWII, as veterans of the Romanian Army. He wants the Romanian state to offer these veterans pensions of 300 euros monthly. He will also ask that the veterans of the Nistru war, the combatants and the families of the fallen in battles who have Romanian citizenship are given the same rights as the war veterans from Romania. The candidate will stand to grant quarterly material assistance to elderly Romanian intellectuals living in Moldova. At the press conference, Anatol Munteanu told about multiple cases when he helped Basarabians to get Romanian citizenship. He says he offered jobs to many people coming from Moldova. The candidate presented his team to help him in carrying out the announced projects and initiatives. He described them as “a team of young professionals with much experience.” Apart from the people accompanying him at the news conference he named the lawyers Sergiu Vahnovan and Serigu Golub, manager Dumitru Munteanu, economist Vasile Sajin, etc. “All come from Moldova, all have a good economic and social position in Romania, that they attained through their efforts and capacity,” the candidate specified. Anatol Munteanu was born in 1948 in Volontir village, Tighina county. In 1987 he got the title of a doctor of technical science. He participated in the fights on the Nistru in 1992, and then worked in the Chisinau Defense Ministry. In 1996 he settled in Bucharest where he worked in the Ministries of Interior and Defense. Now he is a prosperous businessman.