A government composed of women only would be much better than a government consisting of men only because the men face more integrity-related problems and have fewer accomplishments than the women, considers the head of the National Participation Council Sergiu Ostaf.
“The election campaign of this autumn will be marked by two important aspects. The first aspect is the results achieved by the government coalition and the opposition, while the second is the integrity of the candidates written on the election lists,” Sergiu Ostaf said in a news conference at IPN. According to him, most of the scandals about conflicts of interests, property or privatization referred to men. That’s why the increased presence of women on the lists of candidates is fully justified.
Sergiu Ostaf also said that if analyzing the integrity of the candidates, there appear reasonable suspicions about the men topping parties’ election lists, confirmed partially by indirect evidence. As to women, there are no such suspicions referring to them.
Executive director of the Partnership for Development Center Alexei Buzu spoke about the government’s shortcomings as regards the passing in the final reading of bills concerning the level of women’s representation in elections and the political process. “Even if the leaders of the PLDM and PDM, including the Head of Parliament, promised to adopt this package of laws in the autumn session of the legislature, these principles represented in fact political barter between the members of the coalition, which were sacrificed for the parliamentary session not to take place. We will have an election campaign that will lack transparency and equitable representation,” stated Alexei Buzu.
He reminded also about the bill put forward by the Ministry of Labor, Social Protection and Family, which, besides instituting a women’s representation quota, also institutes paternity leave for a period of 14 days, given to fathers after the birth of the child. “The political leaders sacrificed this benefit that the young families could enjoy. In their electoral advertisements, the parties will say that they will help the families and you should remind them why they didn’t introduce this benefit for the young parents,” said Alexei Buzu.
The civil society organizations repeatedly called on the MPs to honor their overdue commitments by the end of tenure. According to the NGOs, the adoption of seven bills is groundlessly delayed by the lawmakers, who thus affect the people’s interests.
