Socialists propose set of legislative initiatives to support youth

The Socialists’ Party (PSRM) and its youth organization The Young Guard came up with a set of legislative initiatives for supporting youth. The Socialists claim that the current government didn’t honor its promises to young people and even acted so that the youth are now more pessimistic than before, Info-Prim Neo reports. “Today, we reminded the governing alliance about the promises made to the youth: to increase scholarships, the number of free tuition places in universities and other good programs. In truth, the number of free tuition places was halved from 11,000 to 6000. The rate of unemployment among youth tripled. We come with a set of initiatives through which we propose concrete actions for support youth, because almost 500,000 of 1 million young Moldovans are abroad”, PSRM member Vlad Batrancea said during a press conferenc PSRM and the Young Guard propose to increase the number of free tuition places in universities and to offer social assistance to young specialists in rural areas. “We want to resume the programs for supporting youth in villages, because the villages are dying, and there are no young people staying there”, stressed Vlad Batrancea. The Socialists call the other parliamentary or extra-parliamentary political parties to join these initiatives. “We don’t want to monopolize this field. Regardless of who proposes the initiatives in the field of youth policies, whether it’s the alliance or the Communists, the Socialists will vote for them”, said Batrancea. During the conference, the Ministry of Youth and Sports was criticized for not working productively. PSRM wants to improve the situation of Moldovan youth by cutting the budgets of inefficient institutions and investing more in the future of the country, in youth. The set of legislative initiatives for supporting youth will be registered in a week with the Parliament’s Chancellery.