The Party of Socialists (PSRM) condemns the lack of a reaction and of a set of clear measures on the part of the Government and the ruling party following the rise and expected rise in rates for public utilities. “The Government is obliged to freeze the rise in rates by a firm decision. As far as it is known, the most liberal countries applied such measures during the pandemic. The Cabinet, the President should initiate direct negotiations with producers and suppliers of electrical energy so as to obtain price reductions. The government is obliged to identify funds and to work out functional mechanisms for compensating the population for the financial losses caused by the rampant rise in the cost of living,” says a statement issued by PSRM is response to recent reports about the rise in the price of natural gas, IPN reports.
The Party of Socialists demands to immediately convene an extraordinary sitting of Parliament, to question the Prime Minister and the minister in charge of the energy sector so as to urgently work out population support measures. The opposition party named the PAS Government “antisocial and anti-popular as it pursues a policy of genocide against the own people”. “The almost twice higher natural gas rates and the imminent increase in electricity rates will push the largest part of the country’s population to the limit of physiological survival. These prices are incompatible with life for hundreds of thousands of older persons who live on miserable pensions, for young families with children, for workers, peasants, teachers and social sector employers who coped with difficulty until now too. All these people, who form the largest part of the population, are condemned to certain death by the current government,” runs the statement of the main parliamentary opposition party.
The party noted that most of the residents of Moldova do not make plans as they live much below the poverty line and they should be saved. The population spends the largest part of incomes on food and public utilities so as not to get frozen and not to lose the roof over their head. A new rise in prices will deprive them also of food and of the possibility of paying for electricity, gas and heating. “The current government offers them only one solution – to die of hunger or of cold. These are the promised “good times”,” said PSRM.
