Reshuffles
On June 2, Government appointed Iurie Tabirta as Director of the National Agency for Regulations in Telecommunications and IT, Ilie Boian as Deputy Minister of Environment and Natural Resources, and Valeriu Renita (former press secretary of the Presidency) as General Director of the State Information Agency “Moldpres”.
On 9 June, Messrs Mircea Grigorev and Ghenadie Muntean were substituted by Andrei Ivancov and Nicolae Chitoroaga in the positions of deputy directors of the Centre for the Fight of Economic Crimes and Corruption. At the same Government meeting, Eugenia Gonciar was appointed Head of Division on Personnel Policy of the State Chancellery.
Decisions
- The Cabinet adopted a decision on the selection of commercial banks to serve the territorial treasuries of the Ministry of Finances. The decision approved: the criteria for the selection of banks that will have the task to serve the territorial treasuries of the Ministry of Finance in 2004–2006; the nominal composition of the panel which will select these banks and of the panel regulations.
- An intergovernmental agreement with Kyrgyzstan was adopted via another Cabinet motion. The motion provides for the Department for Information Technologies to take on the obligation to issue passports and identity cards for the Kyrgyz citizens. Experts watch very closely the deal given that no details were made public and given Departments past track record (Parliament Commission found that it was improperly administrating the money on its account wired by Moldovan citizens for their passports and IDs).
- The Cabinet has also approved the maximum staff of the General Division for Refugees under the Migration Department, division that will have to create a shelter for asylum applicants and refugees. According to this decision, the Migration Department has to approve within one month the Regulations and structure of the division’s staff, as well as the Regulations of the Centre.
- The Government approved the proposal by the Central Electoral Commission (CEC) to set up a CEC Information Centre and gave green light to a draft law in this sense. The centre will function as a sub-division of CEC and will have the purpose to facilitate the process of organisation and administration of the electoral process, as well as to support the activity of the CEC. According to the draft, the Centre will perform work related to the use of information technologies both during elections and referendums and in-between them; will create data bases in support of the electoral process; will provide informational and technical support to the CEC; will cooperate in the field of information technologies with local and central public authorities; will ensure the security of storing and transmitting information.
At the same time the Cabinet rejected the proposal from the People’s Christian Democratic Party to modify the Electoral Code, whereby the voting ballots to be filled in would have a detachable coupon on which the voter would enter his/her name and identity card number. The cabinet also rejected another legislative initiative from the same party which proposed to organise elections for the President of Moldova two months after the expiration of mandate of the president in office. This proposal was intended to avoid the possibility of the head of state being elected twice by the same composition of the legislative body.