The team of the Party “Dignity and Truth Platform” (PPPDA) was open to cooperate with the current government so as to find the best solutions to overcome the crisis, but the PSRM-PDM coalition blocked the party’s legislative proposals, PPPDA leader Andrei Năstase told a news conference where he presented a report on the work done by the party’s team in Parliament in first half of 2020, IPN reports.
According to Andrei Năstase, the PPPDA registered legislative proposals designed to improve the socioeconomic situation during the crisis, concerning the double indexation (by 15%) of pensions lower than the minimum subsistence level, which would have enabled the elderly people too to easier overcome the isolation period, they being the most susceptible to COVID-19, payment of allowances to employees in technical unemployment at enterprises that had to cease operations owing to the pandemic restrictions, payment of allowances to a parent of families with children under ten while the schools and kindergartens are closed so as to ensure the protection of the life and health of children who remained at home.
“Our regret also derives from the fact that an important part of our proposals were ignored by the parliamentary majority, which serves the electoral interests of Dodon and his government that is called a catastrophic government,” said Andrei Năstase.
According to him, even as part of the opposition, they managed to promote a number of important bills for the people, primarily for categories that were directly affected by the pandemic and natural crisis. They managed to promote in Parliament the introduction of the successor’s pension following the death of the maintainer working in the healthcare system who got infected while fighting the COVID-19 pandemic, the free medical insurance for war veterans, either they work or not, and the allocation of 100 million lei for the farmers affected by drought.
PPPDA vice president Alexandru Slusari said that during the current legislature, the party’s group in Parliament proposed 87 bills, 53 of which during the current session, outstripping all the other groups. “Being in charge of the economic area, I want to note that owing to the blocking caused by the PDM-PSRM coalition, the farmers now remained without 600 million lei for next year, the national producers cannot sell minimum 50% of their agrifood products in supermarkets. The businesses are now in despair as the legislative framework for a force majeure situation wasn’t made,” said the MP.
MP Igor Munteanu, PPPDA vice president, expressed his regret at the fact that Parliament during this half a year didn’t adopt the law on deoffshorization and the law on prevention that would have offered the startups time not to be blocked by financial inspections conducted by those who serve the oligarchs. “There are many things we managed to do and of which we are proud and this makes us have more energy and consistency in the immediate period,” he stated.
The MPs expressed their regret at the fact that the parliamentary majority decided to close the legislative session suddenly, for strictly electoral reasons, contrary to common sense and the people’s will. There are yet many things that should have been done by the end of the parliamentary session in such a difficult period.
