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​RADICAL REFORM OF CENTRAL PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION IS BEING PREPARED, PRIME MINISTER CONFIRMS

06 december, 2016

Moldovan Prime Minister Pavel Filip has stated on the public television on Monday that a radical reform of the country’s central public administration is being prepared in Moldova.

According to him, the reform will touch the central Government as well. It is believed that the number of ministries will be reduced to 9 from current 16, and other agencies of government will be critically revised. However, the funding of central public administration structures will remain at the current level, which step should permit to substantially raise salaries to employees in the reduced number of ministries and agencies.

“We must necessarily do this because salaries in the public sector are much lower than what private companies offer, so we are losing competition to them. For this reason, many good specialists go to where they are better paid. This leads to weakening of the state institutions’ staff potential. The reform stipulates same funding for a smaller number of civil servants, so good specialists will have an incentive to remain”, said Pavel Filip.

He voiced pity that information about the would-be reform is already in the press and is being actively debated in the social networks.

“Meanwhile, we are only working out the concept of the reform. Proposed projects are yet discussed in the governing coalition, and there is no final document. The variant being discussed by the users of social networks is constantly suffering changes”, said the prime minister.

According to the published variant of the reform, seven ministries of government are going to cease their existence as independent entities and will become parts of other, enlarged ministries. For instance, the Government is going to create Ministry of Economy and Infrastructure, which will absorb the current Ministry of Economy, Ministry of Regional Development and Construction, Ministry of Transport and Road Infrastructure, Ministry of Informational and Telecommunication Technologies, and several Agencies and Inspectorates.

According to the projected reform, the new Ministry of Health and Social Issues will absorb the incumbent Ministry of Health, Ministry of Labor, Social Protection and Family, Moldova’s National Public Health Center, the National Social Insurance Fund, and a number of other agencies and centers.

The new Ministry of Education, Culture and Researches will consist of the present-day Ministry of Education, Ministry of Culture, Ministry of Youth and Sports, a part of the Moldovan Academy of Sciences, the National Bureau for Inter-Ethnic Relations, the National Tourism Agency and some other agencies.

The current Ministry of Agriculture and Food Industry and Ministry of Environment Protection are going to be united into a Ministry of Agriculture, Regional Development and Environment.

The proposed concept stipulates the preservation of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and European Integration, Ministry of Defense, Ministry of the Interior, Ministry of Finance and Ministry of Justice in their present-day shape.

In the Ministry of Finance, an Agency for Incomes is going to be established that will absorb the current Customs Service and the National Tax Inspectorate.

Quite many agencies and bureaus of government will be liquidated or re-subordinated to ministries. All Deputy Prime Ministers will preserve their positions.

The proposed government reform concept caused strong dissatisfaction of the Liberal Party because the document stipulates the liquidation of 3-of-4 ministries headed by LP appointees namely of the Ministries of Transport, Education and Environment. At the same time, the fourth of the said ministries, the Ministry of Defense, is headed by Anatol Salaru who, despite his being an LP Deputy Chairman, is strongly criticizing the Liberal Party leadership and especially its Chairman Mihai Ghimpu. Yet another distinguished Liberal, Minister of Transport and Road Infrastructure Iurie Chirinciuc, has already prepared his own concept of a government reform, according to which his ministry will be certainly preserved.

As already reported by Infotag, the reform of the central and local public administration is one of Moldova's commitments before the European Union. Last July 6, the Government approved the Strategy of Public Administration Reform for 2016-2020. The European Union is ready to furnish 50 million euros for the Strategy realization.

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