1. The Centrist Union of Moldova (UCM) aims at the parliamentary elections this year to wake up and give an impulse to the interest of many citizens, including of passive and indifferent ones, by particularly relying on understanding and support of people who are aware, active and interested in the democratic, political and economic progress of the country. Elections in the parliament will show us whether we want and are ready to live in a democratic world, whether we prize the freedom, pluralism as mandatory values and conditions for a normal development of our society. Therefore, we invite all the citizens to study carefully and appreciate through comparison the programmes and teams participating in these parliamentary elections. This is the only way to make a reasonable and responsible choice on March 6, 2005.

2. UCM participates in the ongoing electoral scrutiny by keeping its programme objectives and firm conviction that the implementation of a proportional electoral system during the parliamentary elections in the past ten years truly deserves the nickname “spiska” and leads inevitably to creation of an irresponsible state power. Namely this system allows the political class in general and governors in particular to neglect the responsibility in front of society, creating every time conditions when the intrigue, lie, incompetence and lack of individual and collective responsibility rule, as Moldova has now no stable governing traditions, the mechanisms for control and sanctioning of the government by population did not become stable yet.

3. UCM regards as necessary and, if elected in the new parliament, will support amendments to the Election Code, and will plead for an immediate change of the election system and conduct of early elections on basis of the new election system, if the new parliament will be again unstable, non-functioning and inefficient, and this would lead again to its dissolution. The UCM programme also includes other proposals regarding the modification of Constitution, creation of a specialized and independent juridical institution (legislative council) of the parliament, presidency and executive, in charge with endorsing any draft laws and elaboration of the most important draft laws, proposals on the parliament, executive power and judiciary power, chief of state, aimed to enhance their responsibility for political, economic and social effects of governing in front of people. To enhance the responsibility of the parliament and president in front of people, UCM will propose to allow people give a distrust vote to these authorities at a referendum and this would lead to their dismissal and dissolution.

4. UCM indicates the low output of activity of all governments which administrated the country all these years of independence. To enhance the efficiency of the executive power, UCM will propose and back the reorganisation of structure of the cabinet of ministers and reduction of the number of ministries (as Moldova has more ministries than, for example, France or Germany), with employment of functionaries on basis of a transparent contest; will insistently seek the adoption of a law on juridical responsibility of the cabinet members, so that to individually sanction the ministers and to make the parliament and the especially authorised court to assume a corporate responsibility for a faulty behaviour of ministers; will opt for a free access of representatives of mass media and civil society to sessions of the executive, except for cases indicated by law.

5. UCM notes that the justice seriously regressed in the past four years regarding the constitutional and legal independence, that means the jurisdictional functioning, and blames the policy of the Communist Party for this situation. As formerly, this party cannot rule through other methods but through administrative-repressive, monopolist-totalitarian methods, by imposing the methods of unconditional subordination to all branches of the power, including to the judiciary one. As a result, the number of complaints of the European Court of Human Rights rose from four appeals in 2001 up to 1,400 complaints in 2004. This situation destroys the trust of citizen in the state power, justice, reduces him to the condition of slave, darkness. To change this state of things, UCM will launch a series of actions aimed to include civil society representatives in the Superior Council of Magistrates, amendments to laws on status of judge and Superior Council of Magistrates, implementation of other measures which would encourage a radical growth of independence of judiciary power, efficiency and quality of justice, responsibility of judges in front of society, people’s control on justice.

6. UCM warns that the corruption phenomenon has affected the politics, institutions, economics, judiciary and law protection, education, social and medical assistance, investments and international trade at the highest levels. Being a true national shame, a social cancer, corruption attacked the vertical of power, led to moral degradation of high ranking dignitaries, functionaries of central and local public authorities, impoverishing the people, raising tensions and social revolt. Citizens must know that more than 35 laws, presidential decrees and governmental decisions against corruption were passed in the past 13 years. Tens of control commissions were created. However, the head of corruption has sunk even deeper. Why this happens? Common people found an answer to this question long ago. UCM confirms this answer: because participants in the anti-corruption struggle are corrupt and they remain out of any control. This way, the wolf in our republic became guardian of sheep. UCM has a treatment and prescriptions for this disease, beginning with revision and adjustment of legislation to international conventions, including Labour, Administrative and Penal Codes through introduction of norms able to discourage any temptation of corruption in all bodies of the power, including the central ones, on a legal, grounded and severe way.

7. Settlement of the Transnistrian conflict is a vital condition for future of country and welfare of citizens. UCM believes in insurance of independence and territorial integrity of the country through awarding of a special status of autonomy to settlements on the left bank of the Dniester rover, including status of subject of an eventual federal state (asymmetrical constitutional-contractual federation), which would receive internal constitutional guarantees and international political, juridical and military guarantees.

The price of this status is the reintegration of country as a mandatory condition for accomplishment of the national strategic interest — the European integration.

8. UCM proposes and supports the examination and revision of economic legislation adopted in 2001–2004, in order to exclude some barriers which underline the guarantees regarding the ownership right, halt the implementation of principles of market economy of social orientation; liberalization of the national bank system, so that to open it for the international bank capital in order to ensure a loyal competition on the capital market, release of long-term crediting sources for development of the real sector of national economy; redemption of 50 percent of value-added tax (VAT) for exportation of goods and services to domestic producer and exporter, in order to encourage the economic motivation to produce qualitative and competitive goods and services on foreign market; gradual reduction of fiscal burden down to a bearable and stimulating level for re-investments, modernization and creation of new jobs; a three-year exemption of nationals who work abroad from payment of income tax for the revenues they earn and declare legally, with the condition that these sources are invested in entrepreneurial projects; examination of the problem on amnesty and legalisation of illegal capital (money, securities, real estate), except for the capital obtained through grave crimes, encouraging this way the repatriation of capital and its inclusion in legal economic activity in national interest, in real terms and with irrevocable guarantees.

9. UCM underlines that the state does not completely fulfil its constitutional obligation to take measures in order to offer a normal living to everybody, so that people be able to take care of their health and welfare, have food, clothes, housing, healthcare, and necessary social services. Taking into account the fact that political parties will make populist social promises again at this electoral campaign (as for example, a 300-dollar salary and a 150-dollar pension) and citizens may be lured again by such promises by neglecting the real costs of goods and services and financial possibilities of the state and private businesses, UCM guarantees with responsibility the capacity and wish of our team to work energetically and constructively in order to implement economic development programmes, which would allow the following:

• massive attraction of internal and external, public and private investment capital for implementation of economic projects capable to provide 150,000–200,000 jobs a year, with adequate and attractive salaries for citizens who work abroad;
• reorganization of social protection and healthcare systems into one national social security system, which would guarantee social services needed for human health and a normal living of people;
• half-year automatic indexation of salaries, pensions and scholarships in dependence of inflation rate;
• implementation of a special programme on building of social housing for large, young and needy families on account of social investments and external crediting sources for 20–25 years, with a small interest rate;
• exemption of retirees, disabled people, job seekers, mothers who take care of children under three, and other needy categories from mandatory social security payments, and this spending will be allocated from the state budget.

10. UCM will resist to political and administrative-functioning pressures on culture and arts, science and mass media. The art must exist on basis of own laws, not through directives imposed by authorities. Journalists hold the right to the complete freedom they need to fulfil their tasks in interests of the entire society. Also, none of us can neglect the worries faced by people in a period full of problems and contradictions. There are too many accusations, mockery, irony, moral ill-treatment of persons who believe in other ideals or chose no way yet, estrangement of one part of population from ideals which must be promoted above all — strengthening of Moldova as independent and sovereign state on its way to democratization, creation of conditions needed for a normal living.

11. UCM regards the implementation of the following actions in the foreign policy as opportune and in line with the national interests of Moldova: examination by the new parliament within the first session of the opportunity to maintain Moldova’s membership to the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) by taking into account the need to adopt such a decision through a consensus of all political forces; reanimation of cooperation with the CIS-member states on basis of mutually advantageous bilateral treaties and agreements, conjugation of capacities and efforts of all political forces, civil society and every citizen to achieve political, economic, social conditions needed for Moldova’s integration in the European Union; drafting of an argued and convincing request to the European Union seeking the wider facilitation of the visa regime in the E.U. for Moldova’s citizens; recognition and materialization of the constitutional principle on Moldova’s neutrality with the assistance of the international community; demilitarization of the entire territory of the country as a condition for settlement of the Transnistrian conflict, growth of credibility of sides, and as a guarantee for an unconditional implementation of solutions adopted in the post-conflict period.

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