The Ministry of Economy and Infrastructure is working on a new set of measures designed to support the business community. The companies that cannot take out loans to overcome the deadlock caused by the pandemic because they stopped work are now the Ministry’s priority, Democratic MP Ludmila Guzun said in a public debate entitled “Supporting business community: between economy and politics”, which was staged by IPN News Agency.
 
“A new package of measures for supporting the business community is being drafted and priority here is placed, as far as I know, on supporting the business entities that will be unable to raise loans, as it was mentioned, and I want to say that the proposals formulated by the opposition are constructive. Besides, a very important task that is to be carried out is the ensuing of access to funds for keeping jobs. We realize that the businesses that do not work and will be unable to pay salaries to employees will have to resort to a radical measure that we would like to be avoided,” stated the representative of the government coalition.

According to her, the measures on which work is now done will be presented to the public through the Commission for Exceptional Satiations or again in Parliament. The Ministry of Economy and Infrastructure are working on measures to stimulate particular relations between private agents, like the rent relations, so that they reach a compromise.

“The banks were encouraged to be more flexible in granting loans to business entities that are unable to provide a very plausible business plan,” said the MP.

Ludmila Guzun noted the authorities are also working to reduce the bureaucratic processes so as to help the business community.

“The reduction of bureaucracy, those relations between the state bodies and the business community, is a measure that I know is broadly implemented and already started to produce results in many countries. In the current situation generated by the pandemic, which found us unprepared, we probably need a faster pace to change the method of communicating, of issuing those authorizations and other permissive documents. All the state bodies should pursue one goal and should help the business community to develop swifter. I refer first of all to those subsidies allocated under the existing programs and I hope more programs will yet follow and will be implemented quickly. I heard that in Germany, they analyze the file of a business entity during a day and the money comes to the account according to the subsidization program. We would like things to go like this in Moldova too”.

In conclusion, Ludmila Guzun said the responsibility for surviving in the current situation is borne by the government and also by the business community.

The debate “Supporting business community: between economy and politics” was the 130th installment of the series of debates “Developing political culture through public debates” that are supported by the Hanns Seidel Foundation.