UCM pledges to cancel people’s heating debts
The Centrist Union of Moldova (UCM) promises it will cancel all the heating debts of the people if it comes to power. The party’s social program also envisions provision of free health policies, opening of social drugstores and conferring of the Heroine Mother title on the mothers with two children and more, Info-Prim Neo reports.
At a news conference on Monday, the UCM president Vasile Tarlev said that if the party comes to power, it will review the charges for public utilities so as to reduce them. He urged the consumers not to pay the heating bills until the April 5 legislative elections.
Also, Tarlev promises that the energy sector will be reformed by liquidating the intermediaries and creating a concern with two shareholders – the Government and Gazprom.
“We will reappraise the natural gas supply system and employ all the variants possible in order to ensure Moldova’s energy security. We will examine the possibility of decreasing the natural gas tariffs. We will finalize the country’s gasification from the resources of the monopolist Moldova-Gaz and will force the company to refund the money taken from the population to reconstruct the gas mains,” the UCM leader said.
If the UCM enters the Parliament, it will suggest modifying the Constitution so that Moldova is transformed into a social state, Tarlev said.
Speaking about social drugstores, the UCM president said that all the types of medicines in these drugstores will be available free of charge or at reduced prices. The beneficiaries will be the people with incomes below the minimum subsistence level. Under the party’s program, the unemployed, the farmers, the veterans and other groups of people will be issued with free health policies.
The UCM leader pledged that the effects of the reforms would be felt after the Parliament’s first quarter in office.