The rise in salaries, balanced external policy, the country’s reunification and switchover to a presidential republic are among the main commitments that the Party of Socialists of the Republic of Moldova (PSRM) undertook to fulfil as part of the next Parliament. These were specified in a resolution adopted in a protest against the current government mounted by members and sympathizers of the PSRM in the Great National Assembly Square of Chisinau on November 18. According to the Socialists, during nine years the government did everything for Moldova to backslide in all the areas and they are ready to assume governance in 2019 and remedy the situation. The protest involved President Igor Dodon and the Governor of Gagauzia Irina Vlah, IPN reports.
By the same resolution, the Socialists undertook to increase the average salary to €600 and pensions to €300, to lower the retirement age and to index pensions at least two times a year. The document says the Moldovan veterans will enjoy free medical assistance. The restoration of the strategic partnership with the Russian Federation at all levels and obtaining of the status of fully-fledged member of the Eurasian Economic Union and the ensuring of mutually advantageous cooperation with the European Union are also among the PSRM’s objectives. The Socialists said they will now allow Moldova to join NATO and will close the NATO Liaison Office in Chisinau, will ban unionist parties and movements, will defend orthodoxy, religion and will eliminate the anti-family ideology.
President Igor Dodon said the pro-Europeans who have ruled for almost ten years marginalized the pensioners and state functionaries, extended the retirement age and cut compensations, liquidated schools, kindergartens and hospitals and made the young people leave the country.
“We can no longer endure. In 2019 we must eliminate everyone, not choose from among them. All the members of the Government and Parliament should be eliminated. We know how and step by step will solve all the problems. We won the parliamentary elections in 2014 and Irina Vlah won in 2015 with our support. Next year is the year of the Socialists, of the people of Moldova and we will win,” stated Igor Dodon, calling on those attending to be anytime ready to protest, before and after the elections.
PSRM president Zinaida Grecheanyi said the protest brought together people who are sick and tired of the system that destroys the government, but there are even more discontented people in villages and towns. “We have the capacity to come together and say “No” to this government,” she stated.
Speaking about the administration that ruled during the past nine years, Socialist MP Vlad Batrîncea, executive secretary of the PSRM, noted this closed schools and kindergartens and privatized state-owned property in a dishonorable way. It also generated the dramatic economic decline and the current government should thus leave. The Socialists are the only alternative to the current regime and they are obliged to win the elections of February 24, 2019. “We came to demolish this shameful regime,” said the MP.
Bashkan Irina Vlah spoke about the reforms done by the current administration of Gagauzia for the people from this region and noted she would not like someone to delimit the people from regional viewpoint as everyone should live in an independent country. “Everyone should be confident in tomorrow and this is possible as we are near you and because Moldova has a future,” she stated.
PSRM secretary for ideology Ion Ceban, who heads the Socialist group on the Chisinau Municipal Council, said Moldova during the past ten years turned from a most densely populated country in the region into a sparsely populated country. The people leave, while others remain here to face abject poverty. “We should now improve things and this is possible. Earlier, colleagues of ours managed to remedy the situation in the country and we will also do this after the elections,” noted Ion Ceban.
