Not only the state should offer the citizens, but the citizens should also contribute with what they can to the country’s development, said Steluța Andrei, expert in strategic and crisis communication. According to her, the government should give up the idea of taking decisions only for a mandate so as to obtain political advantages in the next elections, IPN reports.
Steluța Andrei, who has rich experience in public communication, said the transformation of the Republic of Moldova into a prosperous state can take place only when all the citizens become involved in this process.
“We should not say that “the state must” and that “we elected them and they should do” and we should wait and see what happens. The point is each of us has exactly the same moral obligations in the country in which we were born as there is not only “they should give me” or “I should receive”. This is a circuit of energy, goods, absolutely everything. I offer to receive, but I should realize that when I receive, I need to pay, to give, to do something somewhere so that progress is ensured. We have the same rights and obligations as the state has and should lend a hand and do what we can and how we can as an individual,” Steluța Andrei stated in the program “Reflection Points” on Vocea Basarabiei channel.
Steluța Andrei has done volunteer work many years, offering food products, hygiene products, clothing, school supplies to children from socially deprived groups and to older persons in need from Moldova’s villages. According to her, the socioeconomic siltation in the country’s localities is precarious. To ensure the country’s development, the authorities should change the approach and should not take populist decisions for a four-year mandate.
“It has been about 14 years since I started to visit villages, residential institutions, old people’s homes and children’s centers to see the situation myself. If I were in the position to change particular things, I don’t know where I would start from as the gaps are enormous. Our thinking limited to a four-year term is a crime against the future of our children as I cannot build complex infrastructure, cannot raise a child in four years and transform this in four years as we develop throughout our life. How can I bank on something If I don’t know what I will do during a four-year term and I should not start big processes as I will not reap the harvest? This is a crime against the own country,” stated Steluța Andrei.
