The Party of Development and Union of Moldova (PDCM), which was founded and is led by ex-Premier Ion Chicu, on June 8 officially opened its campaign preceding the snap parliamentary elections of July 11. Ion Chicu said the choice that the people will make on July 11 depends on whether Moldova adopts the development course or continues to slide toward disorder, division and poverty. The PDCM enters the election campaign with its honest and assumed message “The country is in difficulty, but together we can overcome any difficulty”, IPN reports.
The president of the PDCM assured that the team he leads has the capacity to works for the people. “Together with the people who now form part of the PDCM’s team, we knew to reduce the taxes and duties so that the people, the economy and the budget stand to gain. We knew how to increase the salaries and pensions so that billions remained in the state treasury when we left. We knew to finance the building of roads and water supply systems so as to support the economy and the farmers. We coped with the pandemic and drought and didn’t allow salary and pension arrears to appear,” he stated
Ion Chicu said the party’s program is realistic and for the country. The state can be kept only if it is integrated into the European area. The country can be developed by fighting corruption, by decreasing taxes and increasing people’s incomes. The PDCM undertakes to increase the official salary by 40%, to subsidize the creation of jobs, to extend the First House Program and launch a similar program for motor vehicles intended for families with children, to raise the salaries of teachers and public sector functionaries, to pay an additional pension to those whose pension is lower than the minimum subsistence level.
Ex-minister of health Viorica Dumbrăveanu said the insufficiency of financing for the health system and the pseudo-reforms promoted during many years distorted the health system and generated major functional risks. Only the exemplary capacity of doctors enabled in 2020 to avoid the collapse of the health system. To develop the health system, the PDCM aims to diminish the shortage of doctors by sufficient financial motivation, to create conditions of access to medical services for everyone, to outfit the medical institutions with the necessary equipment, to diversify medical services and to strengthen the National Public Health Agency so as to appropriately respond to the public health emergencies.
Former minister of economy and infrastructure Anatol Usatîi said the lack of proper infrastructure is the main impediment to economic development. Among the PDCM’s major objectives are to connect the national and international public roads, including for creating preconditions for building highways, to continue and extend the national and regional roads rehabilitation programs, to resume the Good Roads Program, to continue the drafting of the program to construct water mains for supplying water from safe surface water sources, such as the Nistru and the Prut Rivers, and to build sewerage systems in settlements.
