Legislation initiative pursues to exempt rural entrepreneurs from taxes and checks

The Moldovan Democratic Party has worked out a draft law on stimulating rural entrepreneurship, Info-Prim Neo reports. The Party’s president, Dumitru Diacov, stated on Wednesday, October 29, at a news conference that “because of the world crisis and the lack of developed economic sectors in Moldova, it is absolutely necessary to create conditions in villages, so that the money of our countrymen as well as of foreign investors is invested there.” “ We propose that, for a three-year term, small and medium businesses from villages (small factories, companies, workshops) should be exempted from taxes and checks, which actually are impediments in the business development in villages,” Diacov said. “We should enable these entrepreneurs to release roots, to create jobs, and then we should allow in the checking organs, these grabbing office workers, to pounce upon this business segment,” the party’s leader added. “We have big villages with big population, which do not have conditions for business development. This is the main reason why people leave villages,” Dumitru Diacov said. The draft law the Moldovan Democrats has proposed commits the Government to elaborate the proper draft law regarding urgent measures of safeguarding the rural entrepreneurship. “We are able to work it out, but the parliamentary majority put the opposition’s initiatives in drawers,” Diacov argued. In another row of ideas, Diacov doubts the results of the opinion poll, launched by the Public Policies Institute (IPP) a day earlier. “We take these polls seriously and understand that we need to work harder, and we do not exclude that some figures are exaggerated under some party’s command, because we live in Moldova,” he said. “I am sure that the Communists will not get the majority in the next Parliament, in spite of all polls,” he stated. The party’s vice president, Oazu Nantoi, an IPP program coordinator, specified he was not involved in the poll, but he is sure there are no reasons to suspect his colleagues of having been paid to swell up figures.” According to the poll, the party lost from its rating in the voters' preferences from 10.8% to 5.9%, as the threshold to enter the Parliament is 6%.