The leader of the Party “Platform Dignity and Truth” (PPPDA) Andrei Năstase said the Democratic Party’s initiative “Good Roads for Moldova” is populist. The roads are built and repaired with the people’s money and the PDM is trying to gain electoral benefits this way, IPN reports.
Andrei Năstase told a news conference that the Republic of Moldova made the rehabilitation of roads a national priority. Moldova’s decision was supported by the foreign partners that pledged to financially support the country in this regard. As a result, the transport and logistic strategic for 2013-2022 appeared. “Under this strategy, Moldova is to annually allocate 4 billion lei for roads. A considerable part of this money was provided by the foreign partners. But the decision to allocate 80% of the excise duties for roads was valid only until 2014. Later, in order to fill the budget gap that appeared as a result of the banking fraud, the government reduced this quota over two times. By departures from the law and the assumed international commitments, the government during the past five years deprived the Road Fund of 3.8 billion lei. The biggest theft is yet committed in 2018 as the Road Fund will obtain by 1.2 billion lei less than the law and international commitments envision,” stated the politician.
“This year, no one has offered grants and loans. The situation in which the Republic of Moldova found itself is serious. The people should understand that the “good roads” are built with the taxpayers’ money. We consider nationwide reconstruction programs should be launched and the construction of the European corridor 5 that would connect Moldova and the European Union should be planned.”
In another development, the leader of the PPPDA demanded to dismiss the Deputy Prime Minister for European Integration Iurie Leancă and to take legal action against him over the recent press reports that the mayor of Orhei Ilan Shor financed the studies of Iurie Leancă’s son aboard. Andrei Năstase said they will make the necessary approaches for the international institutions to know about this.
Commenting on the Democrats’ initiative to enshrine the European integration course in the Constitution, the politician said this is populist in character and the European integration should be done daily, by concrete acts.
