Politics

DPM LEADER SAYS MOLDOVA IS SUFFERING NOT ONLY OF COVID-19 BUT ALSO OF POLITICAL POPULISM

30 march, 2020

Besides the coronavirus pandemic, Moldova is suffering of yet another disease – political populism, believes Moldovan Democratic Party leader Pavel Filip, the republic’s former Prime Minister.

Filip remarked at a press briefing on Friday that even in the current complicated-most period, Moldovan parties and politicians are not able to rid themselves of this disease, staging one theatrical performance after another with their numerous populist ideas and proposals appearing almost daily.

“I regard as hypocrisy the proposals of those [parliamentary Pro Moldova group of 7, who divorced the Democratic Party last month], who were insisting only very recently on raising salaries for parliamentarians and are now demanding to cut the salaries of high-ranked state officials. Or yet another recent sham: they propose a method to save 100 million lei and, in exchange, put forward expenditures worth billions [the package of anti-crisis measures proposed by Pro Moldova]. Also, it is nothing but hypocrisy to call oneself a pro-European and, simultaneously, to urge political parties to sacrifice their state subsidies for the needs of the anti-virus struggle, being perfectly aware that such subsidies have been agreed upon with the European Union and prescribed in the EU-Moldova Association Agreement”, said the Democratic Party Chairman.

Pavel Filip expressed pity that for some politicians, cheap political shows matter more than the lives of citizens and security of the country.

“Since the day of the state of emergency imposition {March 17], the Democratic Party has been avoiding public statements, though we have our own Crisis Unit whose members have a lot of interesting ideas. We monitor the situation daily online, discuss various initiatives with the DPM-proposed Ministers of Government, with the Cabinet of Ministers and with the Party of Socialists”, said Pavel Filip.

The ex-Premier presumes that if Moldovan schoolchildren do not return to classes until the end of the state of emergency on May 15, the Government should annul exams in the 9th forms and baccalaureate exams.

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