Fundamental objectives

The fundamental objectives of the Christian-Democratic Peoples’ Party for the following 4 years are:

1. Reduction of poverty, creation of work places, growth of incomes and prevention of migration;
2. Support and consolidation of the average class of the population, ensuring sustainable economic development, implementation of a functional market economy;
3. Combat of corruption and organized crime, optimization of and making more efficient the public administration;
4. Surpassing the state of occupation and recovery of the territorial unity of the country;
5. Re-establishment and consolidation of democratic institutions, observance of fundamental human rights and freedoms, increasing the security of the citizen and of the family;
6. Support of the young generation, of the pensioners and of other socially vulnerable groups;
7. Reviving the educational system and increasing the social prestige of teachers;
8. Development of the infrastructure and energetic security of the country;
9. Adoption of practical measures for the observance of the rights of the minorities;
10. Development and implementation of strategies for the pre-adherence of the Republic of Moldova to the European Union and NATO.

Priorities and implementation measures

Democratization of the society by:

• Placing the Parliament in the centre of the state’s institutional construction in accordance with the Constitution;
• Consolidating and applying the principle of separation of powers in the state;
• Restoring the independence of the judicial power and adjusting the status of the prosecutor’s office to the standards of a state governed by the rule of law;
• Implementing a central administration reform and reducing the number of ministries and of officers in governmental structures;
• Ensuring the freedom of speech and of the independence of mass media;
• Reorganizing “Teleradio Moldova” Company and constituting two public broadcasting institutions, radio and television, free of any interference in their editorial policy;
• Guaranteeing the freedom of meetings.

Ending the state of occupation and re-establishing the country’s territorial integrity by:

• Denouncing the Moldovan-Russian Agreement of 21 July 1992 “On the peaceful regulation of the armed conflict in the Transdniestrian region of the Republic of Moldova”;
• Withdrawing the Russian army and its military arsenal in accordance with international commitments assumed by this country;
• Developing a strategic partnership with the USA, European Union, Romania and Ukraine in view of involving them directly in the process of regulation of the Moldovan-Russian conflict in the eastern part of the Republic of Moldova;
• Applying the “3D” Strategy (Demilitarization, Decriminalization, Democratization) and the Action Plan for the regulation of the conflict in the Transdniestrian region;
• Cooperating with the Ukrainian authorities in view of taking control over the Eastern border of the country and instituting a mixed Moldovan-Ukrainian customs control;
• Initiating criminal lawsuits against the criminals of the Tiraspol regime and announcing them in international search;
• Initiating criminal lawsuits against and holding accountable the Chisinau accomplices of the occupational regime;
• Nationalizing the property illegally accumulated by the criminal network from Tiraspol and Chisinau through the traffic with arms, drugs and human beings as well as through smuggling of any kind.

Fighting and preventing corruption by:

• Uprooting mafia clans of the communist nomenclature and of the former corrupt governances;
• Adopting the law on ministerial accountability;
• Reforming and consolidating investigation bodies and the judiciary;
• Ensuring the transparency of the act of governing and of the activity of local state authorities;
• Hardening the punishment for bribe taking and misuse of power;
• Improving the legislation on access to information and hardening the punishments for keeping secret public interest information;
• Depoliticizing and ensuring the independence of the Court of Accounts and of tax control authorities;
• Decreasing tax burden and simplifying the tax payment procedure;
• Reducing the number of bureaucrats, promoting honest professionals into state structures and increasing their salaries.

Restoration of the autonomy of local state authorities by:

• Administrative-territorial reorganization of the country;
• Integral transmission of local public property into the administration of local public authorities;
• Restructuring the inter-budgetary relation system to ensure local authorities with sufficient funds proportional to their powers;
• Restructuring the system of provision of public services, transferring some activities to the private sector;
• Creating conditions for increasing the level of cooperation among local communities in problem solving, including the cooperation with foreign local authorities;
• Computerizing and connecting all mayoralties to the Internet.

Restricting the state’s intervention into the economy by:

• Instituting an adequate economic-social framework and a clear system of rules for the functioning of the entire economy;
• Diminishing the state’s distributive function and increasing the incentive one;
• Reducing the bureaucratic apparatus and simplifying the regulations;
• Redistributing incomes through the budgetary and fiscal policy, establishing priorities for budgetary expenditures.

Consolidation of private property by:

• Promoting the principle of equal treatment of state and private property;
• Protecting private property as the basis for social welfare;
• Ensuring the transparency of the process of privatization, clearing up and countering the actions of illegal alienation of state property;
• Accelerating the process of privatization of enterprises from the field of telecommunications, wine growing, tobacco processing and power sector;
• Re-establishing the historical rights to property, from which the citizens were deprived during the Soviet occupation, by applying direct and indirect methods of compensation based on provision of facilities in the process of privatization to retiring, to ensuring and improving living conditions.

A balanced monetary-foreign currency policy by:

• Correlating the monetary policy with the implementation of structural reforms, economic growth, reduction of inflation and increase in the population’s income;
• Promoting a protectionist foreign exchange rate aiming at increasing the competitiveness of local products and non-admittance of devaluation of population’s incomes;
• Observing the currency market rules by economic agents in view of preventing currency speculation and formation of a gap between the reference and real rate;
• Reducing bank interest rates;
• Supplementing the currency reserves of the state, taking into account the impact on the exchange rate of the Leu.

Incentive fiscal policy by promoting the “4S” principle:

• Simplicity: clear rules for all taxpayers, accountants, managers and tax inspectors;
• Stability: unchanged rules at least during one budget year;
• Selectivity: granting facilities and incentives only to priority branches and activities that generate income to the budget;
• Sanctioning: sanctioning any tax payment avoidance.

Efficient policy of public expenditures by:

• Transparency of allocation of budget expenditures;
• Fiscal decentralization and financial autonomy;
• Attracting funds for the programs funded by the European Union and their focusing on investment projects;
• Eliminating subsidization from the budget of economic losses and reorienting these funds towards economic development;
• Reforming and adequately financing public order maintenance bodies;
• Allocating sufficient budget resources for state education;
• Ensuring the minimum guaranteed medical assistance;
• Ensuring decent conditions for the existence of socially vulnerable strata (pensioners, disabled, unemployed, families with many children etc.).

Improving business environment by:

• Decreasing the tax burden to the level of the most progressive countries in the region;
• Excluding the abusive involvement of the state in business and ensuring the observance of the equality of the conditions of operation of all economic agents, regardless of their ownership;
• Eliminating the administrative barriers on the way of investments;
• Making more efficient the paid services provided by public authorities, including by transferring them to the private sector;
• Amending the Tax Code with regards to VAT to ensure a dynamic mechanism for VAT recovery and the possibility of becoming VAT payer from the moment of registration;
• Implementing measures to facilitate the setting up of new businesses by increasing the access to funding, infrastructure and market;
• Simplifying the procedures of opening new businesses and improving the legislation on bankruptcy;
• Supporting small and medium enterprises through internal levers and resources as well as by facilitating external support.

Boosting competition by:

• Creating an honest and open competition environment;
• Annihilating the disloyal competition phenomenon, based on protectionism, granting of unjustified tax, financial and legal incentives and on the voluntary and subjective cancellation of taxes and/or of tax penalties;
• Regulating natural monopolies and non-admitting economic monopolies;
• Setting up a Competition Office — non-governmental public authority;
• Enforcing the Insolvency Law, regardless of the ownership and organizational/legal form of economic agents, generators of losses and debts;
• Privatizing bankrupt state or municipal enterprises.

Bolstering exports by:

• Reorienting and diversifying exports, reducing the dependency on a single market;
• Facilitating the access of local products to external markets by using the opportunities offered by the Agreement on Partnership and Cooperation with the European Union, Action Plan “European Union — Republic of Moldova”, bilateral free trade agreements etc.
• Restructuring exports by increasing the share of products incorporating high added value;
• Transforming the lohn type production into local production, especially light industry;
• Bringing the Moldovan legislation on export in full accordance with the standards and directives of the European Union in this area;
• Simplifying customs controls, essentially reducing the number of the necessary documents, as well as simplifying the mechanism of coordination and issuance thereof in the process of execution of export contracts;
• Establishing, insistently promoting and adequately applying in practice the model of export of perishable agricultural products in accordance with the “Green Corridor” mechanism;
• Developing the external network of export promotion, especially on western markets, organizing trade offices and representations with the participation and financial support of employers’ organizations, professional associations and interested economic agents.

Consolidation of the middle class of the population by:

• Implementing a stimulatory legislative framework and providing real support to the small business;
• Setting up the mechanism of issuance of authorizations, certificates etc. according to the ‘one stop’ principle;
• Implementing programs for the development of the entrepreneurial spirit for unemployed, women, the youth etc.;
• Developing the business support infrastructure: consultation centres, companies for research/implementation of new technologies in the economy, ‘business growth’ companies, financial leasing companies, loan guarantee funds, business fosters;
• Implementing crediting and micro-crediting programs for small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) with interest subsidizing;
• Setting up a SME Development Agency;
• Developing the marketing and sale capacity of SME: development and presentation of information and market studies, trainings to increase professional marketing abilities, implementation of programs to improve the quality of products;
• Implementing training and professional re-training programs for entrepreneurs, managers, specialists, mainly from the rural area, retraining of labour force.

Regional development of the urban system by:

• Creating development regions in accordance with the line European standards;
• Adopting the necessary legal framework for the development and implementation of a National Regional Development Plan;
• Establishing and granting broad competences to regional authorities in the field of internal and trans-border interregional cooperation, including within the Euro regions;
• Ensuring a favourable investment environment in cities;
• National programs for the development of urban infrastructure, public utilities and services;
• Making more efficient the provision of public utilities (privatization, concession, rent);
• Strengthening cities as centres of regional economic growth and of reduction of existing socio-economic disparities, development of liaisons between the city and the village.

Development of the village by:

• Connecting to the gas pipe 50 localities each year, i.e. 200 localities in four years;
• Financing the construction of drinking water supply networks for 60 localities every year, i.e. 240 localities in four years;
• Supporting non-agricultural activities in the rural area, extending the entrepreneurial patent as a single taxation system on some small business enterprises in villages;
• Stimulating investment in agriculture;
• Encouraging activities of processing agricultural products, meat and milk in the countryside;
• Supporting the development of communication networks in villages as a main factor in business promotion;
• Granting subsidies to peasant farms for irrigations, selected seeds, planting material, seminal material and for killing pests;
• Setting up agricultural crediting cooperatives;
• Cancelling customs taxes on the import of all types of technical equipment and agricultural stocks;
• Developing the technical infrastructure of agriculture (transportation, warehousing, irrigations, land improvements);
• Developing agricultural services (veterinary assistance, repair of agricultural devices);
• Preserving the traditions of the local village;
• Developing rural tourism.

Development of infrastructure and ensuring energy security by:

• Rehabilitating the national network of roads by attracting European funds, arranging, recovering and repairing 600 km of roads each year, i.e. 2400 km in four years;
• Reorganizing and privatizing railway transportation, attracting European funds for the integration of Moldovan railways into the European network of railways by transferring to the European gauge;
• Connecting the road network to the international system of communications;
• Diversifying the sources for the supply with energy resources;
• Implementing programs for increasing the efficiency of the energy sector and for decreasing energy consumption.

Edification of the information society by:

• Cancelling customs taxes on the import of computers and informational technologies;
• Internet access to central and local public administration by implementing the concept of electronic governance;
• Developing the informational infrastructure in villages;
• Granting financial aids to school and university students in view of purchasing computers and connecting to the Internet;
• Stimulating foreign investments in the field of informational technologies and communications;
• Supporting the development of technological parks;
• Providing facilities to software producers.

Eradication of poverty by:

• Improving the legislative and legal framework to ensure the access of the population to the minimum set of social services guaranteed by the state;
• Setting up a solidarity fund to provide allocations for socially vulnerable strata: the unemployed, senior, disabled people, low-income families;
• Reducing the discrepancy between the income obtained by various social categories and strengthening the social cohesion;
• Fighting social marginalization through education and work;
• Recovering 148,000 work places liquidated since 2001 until now and opening 50,000 new work places;
• Granting discounts and tax incentives to the enterprises that will yearly increase the number of work places;
• Increasing the minimum salary to the equivalent of Euro 100, of the average salary — to the equivalent of Euro 250, of the minimum pension — to the equivalent of Euro 90;
• Attracting foreign and local investments by setting up an incentive system and stimulatory taxation;
• Diminishing the labour force exodus by making more dynamic the economic development of the society and by significantly increasing the population’s income;
• Providing assistance to the Moldovan citizens working abroad.

Reviving the educational system by:

• Restoring the respect for the teacher, safeguarding the dignity and prestige of teaching staff;
• Increasing budgetary allocations for education up to 7% of GDP, funding state education in a centralized way and providing a monthly average salary for the teachers from the equivalent of Euro 100 (in 2005) to the equivalent of Euro 250 (in 2008);
• Introducing religion as subject in the school curriculum, constituting a social behaviour on the natural chain Family — School — Church;
• Recovering the rural school system by granting incentives to school and kindergarten teachers to stimulate their location in villages;
• Conferring the status of foreign language to the Russian language, to be studied on an optional basis in state schools;
• De-Russifying the education of national minorities and supporting the education in the minority languages;
• Recognizing and guaranteeing the right of ethnical minorities to learn the official language and the culture of the majority, which will make it possible to overcome isolation and integrate them entirely in the society;
• Equipping each year 100 rural schools with computer classes and connecting them to the Internet;
• Setting up an efficient, objective and honest system of evaluation, to exclude corruption in educational institutions;
• Restructuring higher education system in accordance with the European standards;
• Setting up university extensions in Soroca and Orhei;
• Supporting research and development centres of various forms of ownership.

Improvement of public health by:

• Making more efficient the medical insurance system;
• Ensuring the decisional autonomy of the National Medical Insurance House;
• Stopping the mass exodus of healthcare staff by increasing the salaries of healthcare staff and creating adequate working conditions therefore;
• Cancelling customs taxes on the import of medical equipment that is not produced on the internal market;
• Subsidizing the procurement of minimum necessary medicines for pensioners;
• Implementing a malady prevention system by setting up a modern healthcare infrastructure;
• Universal free access to counselling and testing against HIV/AIDS, sexually transmitted diseases and tuberculosis;
• Funding by the state of the medical science and medical education, training the national healthcare personnel to the level of the modern requirements;
• Encouraging the setting up of churches under hospitals, facilitating the spiritual assistance of patents;
• Introducing the obligatory recording of the expenses spent on each patent for all medical documents;
• Developing the private system of provision of medical services;
• Implementing national programs for the promotion of a healthy lifestyle;
• Impelling the fight against socially dangerous phenomena for the public health (drug addiction, prostitution).

Development of culture by:

• Adopting a stimulatory tax system for all types of cultural activity;
• Funding an investment program from the state budget to re-establish cultural institutions;
• Transferring all culture workers into higher salary categories, so that no monthly salary is lower than the minimum consumption basket;
• Supplementing the national book fund in all public libraries by 50% until 2006 and by 100% until 2009;
• Computerizing all culture institutions;
• Promoting the values of national culture;
• Preserving and restoring cultural and art objects, conserving the national cultural patrimony;
• Broadening the access to internal and international cultural programs and projects;
• Guaranteeing the observance of the intellectual property right.

An active social protection by:

• Unifying the public pension system and eliminating discrimination in the provision of pensions;
• Developing the pension system with new insurance components;
• Quarterly indexation with the inflation rate of budgetary salaries, pensions, stipends and indemnities;
• Providing assistance for training and re-training;
• Creating conditions for the social integration of people with disabilities;
• Involving civil society in the provision of social services;
• Creating an efficient and equitable mechanism in the provision of nominal social assistance services, so that the allocated resources are directed towards the most vulnerable social strata;
• Stimulating economic agents to create new work places and keeping the existing ones by providing loans and subsidies;
• Providing state support (loan guarantees, interest coverage, tax incentives) to the population able to work for the organization of own activity.

Supporting the young generation by:

• Exempting from the payment of social insurance contributions enterprises hiring new specialists;
• Facilitating the employment of young people in the rural area by implementing a system of tax incentives and financial aid from central and local public authorities;
• Setting up a loan granting system for education;
• Encouraging the youth in the launching of new businesses by providing preferential loans, creating and developing the network of business fosters, organizing training and retraining courses;
• Facilitating and equalizing the chances of access to education at various levels of talented young people from the rural area, orphanages, difficult families, as well as of those with disabilities and deficiencies by providing stipends, preferential loans and aids;
• Developing the social services infrastructure for young people by setting up a network of informational centres for professional counselling and orientation on the entire territory of the Republic of Moldova;
• Supporting the participation of young people in international activities and in European integration projects (access to education stipends and international projects, regional and international programs, international tourism and exchange of experience);
• Supporting the right to association of young people by creating an organizational framework at local and regional levels, which would promote the integration of the youth in administrative structures.

Support of the family by:

• Ensuring the stability of the family, supporting families with many children, increasing the wellbeing of families, educating children at a corresponding material, spiritual, sentimental and moral level;
• Supporting young families with building a home by setting up a loan guarantee fund for young families in view of building/purchasing dwellings, including on a mortgage basis;
• Extending the paid maternity leave to one year and increasing the monthly child care indemnity for two years up to the equivalent of Euro 75;
• Rehabilitating and developing the pre-school institution network, especially in the rural area;
• Implementing a support system for children from single parent families;
• Increasing the role of the church and its initiative in view of the material and moral support of the family;
• Developing counselling services, to aim at preparing young people for marriage, assisting them with conflict solving and prevention of divorces.

Environmental protection by:

• Establishing and applying at national level standards and laws that would ensure the obligatory inclusion of environmental protection in any social, economic or political decision-making process;
• Encouraging ecologically clean production and technological processes without a negative impact on the environment;
• Attracting investments by setting up enterprises for the collection, selection, processing and inhumation of household and industrial wastes;
• Protecting citizens against natural calamities and environmental accidents;
• Strengthening trans-border partnership with similar institutions from other countries in view of monitoring the stage of environmental project implementation.

European integration, regional and international cooperation by:

• Establishing a special partnership with Romania in view of developing a strategy for the pre-adherence of the Republic of Moldova to the European Union;
• Harmonizing the legislation of the Republic of Moldova with that of European Union countries, adjusting to the aquis communitare;
• Initiating negotiations in view of the Republic of Moldova joining the European Union and submitting a request for joining the EU;
• Strengthening political, economic and cultural cooperation with EU member states;
• Cancelling the obligatory character of visas for citizens from EU countries and obtaining from the European Union a favourable visa regime for Moldovan citizens;
• Actively participating in regional association processes;
• Using with maximum efficiency community programs of assistance and cooperation;
• Implementing the European standards in the national economy, obtaining access to external sources of funding and investment;
• Turning to good account the possibilities offered by the favourable geographic location of the Republic of Moldova in the European context on the East-West and North-South axes;
• Launching and promoting, with European support, of new initiatives within the Euro regions Low Danube, Upper Prut and Siret-Prut-Nistru;
• Further developing friendly relations with Ukraine, on the basis of the already formed traditional relations;
• Strongly promoting the policy of regional cooperation with the neighbouring countries and countries from the Black Sea basin;
• Establishing bilateral and regional relations in view of diversifying the sale market of local goods and services;
• Economic, social, cultural and spiritual integration with Romania;
• Denouncing the documents on the adherence of the Republic of Moldova to CIS, developing bilateral relations with the countries from this community taking into account the economic-commercial needs.

National security and Euro-Atlantic integration by:

• Developing a National Security Strategy to reflect the major interests of the Republic of Moldova in this area;
• Active involvement of the Republic of Moldova in regional security structures and partnerships/treaties of pre-adherence to Euro-Atlantic security structures (Peace Partnership etc.);
• Abandoning the superannuated concept of permanent neutrality of the state and submission of adherence instruments with the North-Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO);
• Implementing a security partnership with Romania, according to the model Poland-Ukraine;
• Reforming the defence sector, which assumes civil control over security institutions (Ministry of Internal Affairs, Ministry of National Defence, Security and Information Service etc.) in accordance with the international and NATO standards;
• Allocating a corresponding percentage from the national budget to allow for the unfolding of reformation and modernization processes in the defence sector;
• Programs for safeguarding the borders in accordance with the Euro-Atlantic standards;
• Reforming and democratizing the Higher Defence Council, so that it includes the most important political and social forces from the Republic Moldova;
• Professionalizing the armed forces and developing a strategy of social reintegration of reservists as a result of reform processes;
• Adapting/aligning to NATO standards with regards to the levels of making secret and rules of access to documents.

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