If parliamentary elections were held next Sunday, three parties would enter the legislative body. The Party of Action and Solidarity would gain 36% of the vote, the Party of Socialists – 19%, while the Shor Party – 15%, shows a sociopolitical and business climate study conducted by Magenta Consulting. The survey was commissioned by the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom of Germany.
In a news conference hosted by IPN, Magenta Consulting director Dumitru Slonovschi said the study covered a sample of 1,421 respondents and was carried out during January 11 – February 6. The margin of sampling error is ± 3%.
If local elections were held in the municipality of Chisinau next Sunday, current mayor Ion Ceban would poll most of the votes.
Among the economic problems that were most often mentioned by the respondents are the rise in prices, small incomes, absence of workplaces, and poverty. The rise in prices was noted by 62% of those polled. 13% of the respondents consider the war in Ukraine is now the most serious problem for Moldova, while 12% mentioned poor governance.
Asked who or what phenomena are to blame for the current problems, 56% of those surveyed responded that the current government, 29% - the politicians who do not think about the people, 29% - corruption, 23% - the previous governments.
Dumitru Slonovschi said the respondents were also asked what development course the Republic of Moldova should follow. Almost half of the population believes the country should join the European Union, while 34% consider Moldova should have closer relations with Russia. 18% didn’t respond or said that they don’t know.
A study that refers to the companies operating in Moldova was presented in the same news conference. 32% of the interviewed companies said their turnover in 2022 decreased compared with 2021, while 45% said the turnover increased last year.
Most of the companies had the own capital (61%) or personal savings and the support offered by acquaintances (28%) as the main source of financing. For 9% of the companies, the investment projects or grants were the main source of financing. 14% of the companies during the last two years accessed and benefitted from grants or investment projects.
In the same news conference, Raimar Wagner, head of the Project Office for Romania and the Republic of Moldova of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom, said the small and medium-sized enterprises are the backbone of an economy. “We wanted to see what the problems are so as to eventually transmit these data to all the relevant market players - professional associations and also state players – so that the next public policies are probably based also on the data we collected. We saw that there is a problem of financing, an information problem more. There is money on the market, but the firms perhaps don’t know how to get it,” noted Raimar Wagner.
“I think these sociopolitical data are rather important to see where we are and what society thinks. The people can be also manipulated. On the other hand, there is particular, very real dissatisfaction with the performance of the government.”
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