PRESIDENT DODON MARKS THREE YEARS IN OFFICE

This Monday marks 3 years since Igor Dodon’s accession to the presidency of Moldova.

The President wrote on his Facebook page today: “It was a time of numerous challenges for the country and personally for me because I have worked in a very complicated and even hostile political environment. I acted as president in parallel with a regime that sought to establish a diktat over all state institutions and to subdue the Presidential Administration at no matter what price”.

“However, I have held out and come as winner out of that very dangerous and risky struggle. Thanks to the cardinal change of political climate in the country that happened last June, new possibilities have appeared for Moldova’s development”, wrote the President.

Igor Dodon also posted a 20-minute-long documentary firm “about how these 3 years went on, and what results the presidential team has achieved”.

The film describes the President-initiated programs of support for large families, for low-income population groups, and realization of various socio-economic initiatives. In particular, Igor Dodon narrates that over the 3 years, he has held direct meetings with over 50,000 citizens, and some 350 thousand people received assistance from the First Lady’s Din Suflet Foundation, which has also presented over 50,000 school satchels to children from needy families.

The film says that in the first two years in office, President Dodon was coming across the fierce resistance offered by the oligarchic Plahotniuc regime, which used to suspend the head of state from his post for a short time [to sign a necessary documents] and blocked the activities of the Presidential Administration. In June 2019, thanks to the compromise reached between the pro-presidential Party of Socialists and the parliamentary Right parties, oligarch Vlad Plahotniuc was removed from power and Moldova returned to a development path, said the film.

President Dodon said that the Government of Prime Minister Maia Sandu, formed in June 2019, has provoked itself its own resignation, after which a new Cabinet appeared headed by Premier Ion Chicu.

“Presently, all the main branches of state power – the President, Parliament and Government – are acting team-like, like one indivisible whole. Thanks to this, next year my activities will be more energetic and efficient. Moldova has a future no matter what circumstances”, wrote the President.

As was already reported by Infotag, in the first round of the presidential election held on October 30, 2016 Igor Dodon polled 47.98%, and in the second round – 52.11%, having outstripped Right opposition leader Maia Sandu by over 67 thousand ballots.
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