Motorway along Prut and four new universities are key elements in PPCD's electoral offer

A team of young politicians running for the Parliament on the list of the Christian-Democratic People's Party (PPCD) presented the electoral offer of the party for the parliamentary April 5 elections, at a news conference on March 12. Building a motorway to link the north to the south of the country, along the Prut river and setting up 4 new universities in Ungheni, Edinet, Orhei and Soroca are key elements in the PPCD electoral offer. “Moldova has never had professional governments up to now. If we add the well-known corruption acts to this reality, then we easily realize why the social-economic situation is so bad,” said Ghenadie Vaculovschi, number two on the PPCD's list, after Iurie Rosca. The PPCD's electoral offer has 10 commitments, the first one referring to creating jobs. In case of reaching power, the PPCD plans to carry out a huge project from 2009 to 2013: building a motorway from Giurgiulesti (Cahul) to Criva (Briceni), in accordance with the road structure developing strategy of the European Union. The project also provides for building 4 bridges over the Prut. Building such a motorway also implies revamping 95 localities in the area, attracting massive investments and developing 6 cross-border industrial areas with infrastructure, production and services. The PPCD believes this project is going to generate over 150,000 jobs. Igor Ciuru, a PPCD councilor from Balti, running on position 4 on the list for the parliament, says the constitutional reform must be continued in Moldova, by depriving the president of the country to dissolve the parliament. The PPCD also wants the parliament's speaker not to have bigger powers than the ones of a mediator, and not to have the right to appoint or to dismiss the general prosecutor. Victor Ciobanu, the president of the youth organization of the PPCD “The New Generation,” has said that “the offer for the youth provides for reforms in education, employment and offering dwelling space to make families.” Those 4 new university centers, planned by the PPCD, are to train managers to ensure the absorption of European funds. Other projects schemed by the PPCD in this sector should provide social scholarships for village children, from the first grade to graduation. The Christian-Democrats want the educational curricula to be correlated to the programs of the European Union to ensure the mutual recognition of diplomas. The Central Election Commission registered the PPCD's list of candidates on February 10 as the party will be on position 4 on ballots. In the elections of March 6, 2005, the PPCD got 9.07% of votes and 11 seats in the parliament.