Anti-crisis program is the trump card of PSD’s election platform, party’s secretary

The Social Democratic Party (PSD) presented a set of anti-crisis measures aimed at minimizing the effects of the world financial crisis on the Moldovan economy on April 11. “The anti-crisis program represents the most important part of the PSD’s election offer,” the party’s secretary general Eduard Musuc told a news conference. He said that “the anti-crisis program must and would become a basis for the constitution and activity of the government that will form after April 5 (the election day e.n.).” The anti-crisis program of the PSD envisions considerable state intervention in the economy. At the first stage, of immediate measures aimed at overcoming the crisis, the state will directly support financially the major pillars of the economy. For example, the state will buy the whole cereal harvest of 2008 and 2009 and the whole wine production. At the second stage, of a strong economy, the state will make large investments in the country’s infrastructure and economy, like provision of free Internet connection for all the residents through the agency of the national phone operator Moldtelecom SA. Eduard Musuc reproached the current government for refusing to accept the PSD’s plan of anti-crisis measures in November last year. “If the Parliament of Moldova had adopted the set of measures worked out by the PSD, the national economy would not have suffered such serious consequences today,” he said. Musuc also said that over 75% of the Moldovan people consider that they are directly affected by the present economic crisis. The PSD representatives underlined that the website www.anticriza.md is designed for discussions about anti-crisis measures that should be taken to support the national economy.