The new minister of labor and social protection Alexei Buzu has taken an oath of office at the Presidential Palace. In the ceremony, President Maia Sandu said that Alexei Buzu is a renowned specialist in social rights and equality, IPN reports.

“Mister Buzu, you need to continue a very ambitious agenda agreed by the Ministry. We bank on your effort and professionalism. The priorities are clear so the continuity of the reform agenda should be ensured. We need an efficient system of social assistance and this means first of all an appropriate system for recording and monitoring social payments. This refers also to the information systems that you need to give up and replace with an information system that will be controlled by the Ministry and will ensure the integration of all the elements of the social assistance program into one system,” said President Sandu.

Prime Minister Natalia Gavrilița noted that Alexei Buzu will manage a ministry whose duty is to equally promote the right to labor in decent conditions and everyone’s solidarity with mates who are in difficult situations. “These two objectives are conditional on each other as we will be unable to achieve the desideratum to have a state with adequate social protection as long as we do not have a labor market that would work according to rules respected by everyone, generating this way jobs and incomes that would enable us to increase social welfare and improve the quality of public services in this sphere,” stated the Premier.

Alexei Buzu, who served as the executive director of the Partnership for Development Center, was named minister of labor and social protection following the resignation announced by Marcel Spatari on Monday. Buzu is a specialist in public policy management and he offered support to a number of ministries in the process of designing, implementing and assessing sector public policies.