MPs request that special committee examine the situation concerning wages and pensions

A group of MPs has submitted a legislative initiative requesting the creation of a special committee, which would include all the political parties in Parliament, to examine the situation concerning salaries and pensions. The announcement was made by MP Dumitru Braghis, the leader of the Social Democracy Party, at a news conference held on March 26. As he says, the committee will have the mission to put forward concrete proposals and examine them in Parliament until the end of this session. Braghis asserts that the situation regarding salaries and pensions is catastrophic and it can not be appreciated otherwise than as follows: poor people get poorer and the rich richer. He explained that the salaries and pensions are being increased by 20% each year, but those who receive a pension of MDL 300 will have a pension of 360, while those receiving 3000 will have a MDL 3600 pension. According to Braghis, this disparity is sharply noticed in the case of the pension paid to the country’s President, which is of about MDL 7,000, and of the MPs – over MDL 4,000, in comparison with teachers that receive pensions of MDL 400-700 and those who worked in agriculture, whose pension is much lower. MP asserts that the state must mainly focus on stopping the exodus of people, the decay of the industry and agriculture, so as to equitably solve the problems related to salary and pensions. According to Braghis, in the 2005 lection campaign, almost all the political parties promised that by 2009 they would make sure the average wage amounts to USD 300 and pensions to USD 100, but taking into account the current state of affairs, by 2008 this objective will fail. In case the things do not get better in this field, Moldova will not move forward to its European integration goal, and will not attain any success in the economic development and the settlement of the Transnistrian dispute, Dumitru Braghis concluded.