In order to ensure high-quality governance and more stimuli in the decision-making process, sinecure should be removed, stated the vice president of the Dignity and Truth Platform Igor Munteanu. According to the MP, there is huge discrepancy now between the remuneration of persons with high-ranking public posts and other state employees who get a paltry salary. In this connection, the public administration reform is a top priority for any future pro-European government that could struggle for the national interest in the Republic of Moldova.
In a posting on a social networking site that is quoted by IPN, Igor Munteanu said the current tri-dimensional crisis (health, economic and political) in Moldova could also be a good occasion for creating another normality in the public service, in the way in which the public interest should be managed in relation to the regulatory public authorities that had been formed during the last decade. “We should create another system for stimulating responsibility, improving skills and preventing sinecures. This will help us to eliminate these immoral imbalances, including as regards these fantastic salaries for sinecurists, based on indicators, devotion and product generated for the benefit of the public interest,” he wrote.
Igor Munteanu noted that particular “budgetary aristocracy” coopted by political parties to represent particular agencies with impressive budgets and social guarantees and also “a large army” of state employees who are paid inappropriately, are abused politically and are socially unprotected started to take shape. This happens because the public service in the Republic of Moldova bends like a cane whenever a significant government change happens, while any budgetary process cannot positively influence the largest part of public sector employees with very low salaries. They are permanent losers of political cycles. They are the most desperate state employees who work the most and are paid the least.
“For this new aristocracy of autonomous state agencies (NBM, CNPF, Competition Council, AGEPI, ANRCETI, NAER), collecting monthly salaries of 70,000 to 160,000 lei is something almost trivial, but 50% of the ordinary public sector employees do not get at least half of the average official salary.”
According to Igor Munteanu, beyond the evident feeling of social injustice, analyses show that there is no certainty as to the fact that those who occupy these generously paid posts in the public sector deserve such remuneration, they looking more like sinecurists connected to the government. The lack of clear and transparent criteria for paying salaries to these groups of “lucky people” of the existing system and the absence of any criteria for assessing their efficiency and efficacy create an area of arbitrary, discretionary actions with a minimum of personal responsibilities.
