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EX-PREMIER VASILE TARLEV CALLS TO VOTE FOR IGOR DODON…

09 november, 2016
EX-PREMIER VASILE TARLEV CALLS TO VOTE FOR IGOR DODON… The Chairman of the Moldovan Congress of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs, former Prime Minister [2001-2008] Vasile Tarlev has called citizens to vote for candidate Igor Dodon of the Party of Socialists at the second round of the presidential election on November 13.

 

Tarlev stated at a news conference at Infotag on Wednesday that Igor Dodon, a former First Deputy Premier and ex-Minister of Economy, is a strong economist with a vast practical experience of directing the national economy.

 

“Dodon has a sound, though not perhaps ideal, program of the country’s economic development, and he is quite able to modernize the country and preserve its territorial integrity”, stated Vasile Tarlev.

 

“As for Maia Sandu, she has no clear-cut or well-founded economic program – only words, words, words. By the way, Sandu was a member of last three Governments and, inter alia, voted for embezzling the billion from banks. Besides this, it is impossible to expect here that a woman can win a victory at elections”, said Tarlev.

 

In his opinion, Maia Sandu can win only as the result of a mass-scale election falsification. Should this really happen, Moldova may suffer repetition of the Ukrainian scenario, “but we don't want a new bloodshed here”.

 

In the first round of the elections held last October 30, Maia Sandu polled 38.71% and Igor Dodon – 47.98%.

 

…AND REGARDS IMF’S DECISION AS INTERFERENCE INTO MOLDOVA’S DOMESTIC AFFAIRS

 

The approval by the International Monetary Fund Board of Directors of a new cooperation program with the Government of Moldova “three days before the presidential election [actually 6 days] can be regarded as an interference into the domestic affairs of an independent state”, Moldova’s former Prime Minister Vasile Tarlev stated at the news conference.

 

In his words, the Moldovan Government has signed “a secret memorandum on the IMF’s financing for Moldova”.

 

“Such agreements have never been secret before. They were always made public. IMF credits are furnished mainly for support of national currencies. But at the present time, the National Bank of Moldova has enough hard-current reserves for this yet. Accordingly, a question emerges on whether such a credit is necessary at the moment. As a prime minister, I had never signed secret agreements. Such documents must be transparent, for they stipulate the provision of huge sums that have to be repaid by the population in subsequent years”, said Vasile Tarlev.

 

The ex-premier referred to a saying by President of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan – that “credits cannot bring happiness to anybody, and the International Monetary Fund has not made even a single country happy”.

 

Vasile Tarlev criticized the Government’s decision to build up the rates of the real estate tax and tax on motor vehicles, for he is convinced this will only deteriorate the general economic situation in the country and will lead to tax evasion.

 

“I am alarmed by the work of the current Moldovan authorities. They seem to be unwilling to do anything for the country development, or are inexperienced, or have no idea how to work”, said the former premier, who held the post much longer than any other of his colleagues – 7 years, and was perhaps the most efficient of all.

 

As already reported by Infotag, Vasile Tarlev was going to run for president, too, as an independent candidate. However, he failed to raise the law-stipulated minimum of citizens’ signatures in his support (15,000), so he could not be registered by the Central Election Commission as a presidential candidate.

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