PCRM considers new law on nominal compensations can cause social unrest

Communist MP Igor Dodon criticizes the new law on the provision of nominal compensations that was passed by the Parliament in first reading and says its effects can cause social unrest and a crisis in the energy sector, Info-Prim Neo reports. During a news conference, Igor Dodon said the rise in charges and the annulment of the bonuses to the salaries of teachers led to a reduction in the population’s incomes, but the rise in salaries and pensions should be the major objective of the Government. According to the heavyweights of the Communists Party, the law on nominal compensations should be based on the following principles: be permanent and not temporary; the financial resources for paying compensations should be earmarked in the budget; the size of the compensations should correspond to the size of the sums paid for public utilities, while the beneficiaries should be selected equitably. Igor Dodon considers that the system for paying compensations is not well thought out and the fact that it was introduced with a delay of two months shows that the Filat Government cannot cope with the situation. At the same time, Dodon says the PCRM has solutions to the problem and persons who can deal with it. Igor Dodom also said that the total sum for paying compensations for the public utilities exceeds 1.4 billion lei, but the Government planned only 82 million lei. Asked by Info-Prim Neo’s reporter why he included compensations for persons on high incomes in the given sum, counting the MPs who can pay the bills without compensations, Dodon said that those who earn 4,000-5,000 lei a month will be also unable to pay the bills and are therefore entitled to compensations. Igor Dodon also said that the sums earmarked for compensations might not reach the service providers so that a crisis could arise in the energy sector as the thermoelectric power plants and the heat supplier Termocom will not be able to pay for the consumed gas and electric power. The PCRM suggests creating a commission that would work to improve the law on the provision of nominal compensations so that all the parliamentary groups voted for it in second reading.