The MPs of the Party of Action and Solidarity (PAS) consider the PSRM-Shor majority late on December 16 adopted toxic laws for the people, with serious violations of the regulations and in secret.
In a press briefing, MP Igor Grosu, who is the acting president of the PAS, said the goal of these laws is to lure the voters in the snap elections. “Yesterday evening, Dodon and Shor turned this building of the Parliament of the Republic of Moldova into a cave of robbers and raiders. Dodon and Shor divided what does not belong to them – the people’s money. If they think that in the election campaign they will boast of laws adopted with violations, without the Government’s appraisals, they are wrong,” said the MP, being quoted by IPN.
PAS vice president Radu Marian said the budget and the budgetary-fiscal policy do not include real measures for supporting the business community and salary earners. “They further allowed the economy to cope by itself. We are in a profound crisis. 60,000 people do not have a job, 1/3 of the firms went bankrupt and their refusal to provide assistance to businesses points to the quality of this government,” he stated.
PAS vice president Dan Perciun said the laws adopted yesterday will lead to a rise in prices of drugs issued without prescription. “The compensated drugs will start to disappear from drugstores and at each street corner we will have mobile drugstores of Shor, which will sell medicines of a poor quality that will endanger people’s lives,” stated Dan Perciun.
As to the lowering of the retirement age, the MP said this is only a trick of Igor Dodon. “The elections are coming and Dodon remembered the pensioners. We must realize that the reduction of the retirement age now, during an economic crisis, will actually mean lower pensions,” he stated.
PAS vice president Vladimir Bolea said the proposal to increase the VAT rate from 8% to 12% on the import and/or delivery of agricultural production on the domestic market was unjustified and was insufficiently explained. “This rather complex measure affects the whole agricultural sector and will have repercussions for the whole value chain and for the purchase price for end-users,” he noted.
Sergiu Litvinenco said all the laws adopted yesterday are challenged as unconstitutional. “The Constitution provides that the amendments that raise the revenues or expenditure should be mandatorily accepted by the Government. Some of those laws were adopted without any approval from the Government.” As to the changes concerning the National Integrity Authority, the MP said there are big reservations as to the activity of the NIA. Even if this institution is controlled by the Socialists, it could not ignore the huge discrepancies between the property and incomes of some of the Socialist MPs. They adopted a law by which they practically annulled the cases featuring the own illegalities.
The PAS group intends to go to the Constitutional Court as they cannot allow the laws adopted in breach of the Constitution to remain in force, concluded Sergiu Litvinenco.
