The activity of the Democratic Party (PDM) will continue to center on such principles as attitude to the people, care for them, justness, development, dignity and values. These objectives are contained in the resolution adopted by the National Political Council of the PDM in a meeting in the evening of December 14, IPN reports.
“Together with our colleagues, we assessed the activity of the party, our representatives in the Government and Parliament during a year, which is since our last congress that was held in December 2016. As the president of the Democratic Party, I presented a progress report covering this period,” the Liberal leader Vlad Plahotniuc stated in a press briefing after the Council’s meeting.
Speaking about the main theses from the resolution, Vlad Plahotniuc said the attitude is one of the principles based on which the party will work. “The change in the political class should start from politicians, first of all from a change of attitude to the people, from the assumption of responsibilities, from the clear orientation of their activity to people’s interests. The reform of the political class that we launched this year should be continued based on this objective – radical change in the politicians’ attitude to the people,” said the leader of the PDM.
According to the resolution, education is one of the areas in which a lot had been improvised the previous years, with extremely negative effects on children, parents and teachers. It is a difficult and bureaucratic area that necessitates profound changes. The healthcare and social protection are areas where the people expect the state to become involved more and the PDM will soon present a new concept of managing these areas, which will be based on their modernization and elimination of abuses and social inequity.
Justice is another mentioned principle. “The people say they feel wronged in a number of areas, starting with the way in in which justice functioned during these years and ending with the way in which the investigation and inspection bodies worked. It’s true that the Republic of Moldova is a country where the level of abuses in this field is yet high. That’s why the PDM launched broad actions to reduce the number of inspection bodies whose main duty was to harass the people, both ordinary people and businessmen. It is an area where we will continue to clean up, even with more firmness and determination, so that the people no longer live in fear owing to the abuses committed during many years against them,” says the resolution.
In the immediate future, the PDM will launch a broad program to build and rehabilitate national roads as this is an area that necessitates urgent state intervention. “For the next few years, we wil propose an ambitious program for the Moldovan communities entitled “One asphalted road in each village” by which to considerably improve infrastructure and realize the development potential of villages. This program will start at the beginning of 2018,” stated the politician.
Vlad Plahotniuc noted that the Moldovans should regain dignity – either it is about the method in which they are treated by the national state institutions or it is about the attitude coming from outside the country. “The policies and actions of the PDM are and will be further aimed at respecting and protecting the dignity of Moldovans. It’s time for Moldova to have a firm voice at the foreign level and we are very motivated to give content to these aspirations of ours, as a country and as society,” said the Democratic leader.
The politician also said that the PDM believes in the European values and promotes them by the reforms done by its representatives in the Government and Parliament. The European integration should be freed from political populism and incorporated into the national country development strategy. “Our representatives in the Government and Parliament will have the task of respecting these working principles and will be periodically assessed depending on results so that we do not lose the dynamics of changes, motivation and professionalism,” reads the resolution.
