The simple motion submitted by the Communist faction against Minister of Education Maia Sandu wasn’t supported by the parliamentary majority. The Communist MPs are not satisfied with the reforms promoted by Maia Sandu in the education system. The censure motion was examined in the July 17 sitting of Parliament, late at night, IPN reports.
In her speech, Maia Sandu said that during the almost two years since her appointment as minister, she devised a long-term strategy for reforming the education system. “Our desideratum is to have a functional system where cheating and irregularities are discouraged, because Moldova will have a future only if it raises honest people with integrity. I knew that the changes in the examination process will be painful, but I analyzed well everything, in concert with national and foreign experts, parents, etc. This is the second year of testing based on the reformed system and we already witness fewer irregularities,” she stated.
The minister noted that the state lost millions of lei when the Ministry of Education was managed by representatives of the Communists. In 2007, the Ministry paid 5 million lei for an information system that hasn’t yet reached the institution.
Liberal-Democratic MP Maria Ciobanu said that this motion was aimed at harassing Minister Maia Sandu. The process of optimizing the education institutions started to produce results. The Communists are dissatisfied as a non-ignorant people will no longer vote Communists or Socialists.
Communist lawmaker Inna Supac asked what the over 15,000 students who didn’t pass the Baccalaureate exams will do. She noted that the current government didn’t tell the young people that they will introduce a totalitarian examination system as they wound’s have gained their support otherwise.
Liberal MP Valeriu Munteanu said the current Communists are authentic descendants of Stalin and Beria. While they were in power, they promoted ignorance and now do not support these reforms because the trained people will not vote for them again.
The motion was supported by 32 MPs, which is an insufficient number for being adopted.
