The leaders of the Civic Platform “Dignity and Truth” will request the President of Romania to supervise how the €150 million lent by the Government of Romania to Moldova will be spent. Protesters’ leadera expressed their concern that this money will be stolen and the whole population will bear the burden of restoring it, IPN reports.
In a news conference held in the Great National Assembly Square, the leaders of the Platform “Dignity and Truth” said the loan of €150 million about which the Romanian Prime Minister Victor Ponta announced today is a ‘breath of fresh air’ for the current government.
“There is no guarantee that this money will not be stolen, as the grants provided by Moldova’s foreign partners were. This loan is nothing else but a breath of fresh air for the oligarchic political class and it only distances the day when this class will be removed from power. The return of this money will be put on the shoulders of the whole population and this is sad,” said Valentin Dolganiuc, a member of the Great National Assembly Council.
“The National Assembly Council calls on the President of Romania and other affiliated authorities of the Romanian state to supervise the utilization of the provided financial resources so as to prevent their misappropriation.”
Protesters’ leaders accused the political elites from both banks of the Prut of cynically exploiting the difficult situation in which the Moldovan population was brought following the stealing of the €1 billion and the taking over of the state institutions by the oligarchs. “The concrescence of the transfrontier crimes occurred and the meeting of Romanian Premier Victor Ponta and first deputy chairman of the Democratic Party Vladimir Plahotniuc in Chisinau is a conclusive example,” stated Dolganiuc.
Romania decided to provide a €150 million loan to Moldova for coping with the economic crisis until the country signs financing agreements with international organizations. The information was made public after the joint meeting of the Governments of Moldova and Romania that took place in Constanta on September 22.
