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MP ALEXANDER PETCOV DEMANDS URGENT PARLIAMENT MEETING FOR CANCELLING LAW ON WATER

11 november, 2014
MP ALEXANDER PETCOV DEMANDS URGENT PARLIAMENT MEETING FOR CANCELLING LAW ON WATER Communist MP Alexander Petcov demands an urgent meeting of the Parliament for cancelling the Law №303 “On public services of water consumption and sewage”, adopted in late 2013 by the ruling Coalition for Pro-European Governance (CEG) deputies. At the Tuesday’s press conference at Infotag, he said that the adoption of the given document was lobbied by a group of high officials from the Democratic Party and the Liberal Democratic Party.

 

“The adoption of this law is backed by Iurie Tap, Valentina Buliga, Valeriu Lazar, Iurie Leanca, Adrian Candu, Igor Corman. This jesuitical document affected hundreds of thousands of Moldovan families, who are living in apartment blocks in Moldovan towns. The law, which entered into force on September 14, 2014, caused the increase in tariffs on average by 50 lei. Moreover, people are paying for water not according to the apartment water counters, but according to the indexes on water meters of the local water providers”, said Petcov.

 

The Communist said that only in Chisinau the sum, received by authorities due to excessive water tariffs, accounts over 7.5 million lei each month.

 

“At the level of country this statistics is, respectively, more considerable. All this money is stolen from the consumers’ pockets and used by the authorities at their discretion”, noted Petcov.

 

The MP is asking rhetorical questions – why did pensioners cut out 400 lei from their meager pensions to install water meters and pay for their check in specialized firms?

 

“These lei were invested by the population into the infrastructure of the municipal water/sewage companies. But what we see? Very often, on the streets of our towns rivers of water are flowing. Is this a management of the branch? The consumers in fact are those to respond for the authorities’ inability to supervise enterprises for water distribution”, underlined Petcov.

 

The deputy also regarded the lack of direct contracts on water supply with apartments’ owners as a severe violation of consumer rights.

 

“There are agreements with residents’ associations, but direct contracts with the very owners of apartments do not exist”, underlined he.

 

Petcov also focused attention on the fact that the notorious law did not undergo an anti-corruption expertise, as it is customary for all the normative acts and categorically recommended by the European Union.

 

“The Government itself requires corruption expertise for the draft laws. However, this document has somehow “magically” avoided it”, he stressed, adding that the Law on water has been adopted with plenty of violations and should be urgently canceled.

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