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Activity of the Government on April 4–17, 2005

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Appointment of candidacy of prime minister

President Vladimir Voronin notified the parliament on April 8 over his decree on appointment of Vasile Tarlev as prime minister of Moldova. Under the decree, the prime minister was instructed to introduce the members of the new cabinet of ministers and to present the governing programme to the parliament for approval within 15 days. Appointment of Vasile Tarlev to the prime minister post for the second time, which surprised many observers after the chief of state had earlier highlighted the need to give new valences to Moldova’s European integration process through promotion of new persons to state high ranking offices, outlines the stake of President Voronin on insurance of a continuity, no matter if slow, of a number of activities started by the Tarlev cabinet in 2001–2005.

In idiomatic terms, President Voronin thought that “a bird in hand is worth two in the bush”, more than that the precedent Tarlev cabinet had ensured a minimum macroeconomic stability in country and improved some economic indicators, and the premier did not raise any problems regarding implementation of different projects, including “palace” scenarios staged by presidential team. President Voronin did not accidentally hint during a TV programme that the repeated appointment of Vasile Tarlev as prime minister is due to the fact that the latter is an obedient executor.

Structure of Government

The new cabinet of ministers will comprise 15 ministries, in line with amendments to the law on executive:

Also, the cabinet will comprise another 13 bodies:

Comparing this structure of executive with the one indicated by Moldovan president to lawmakers on April 8, we can observe some differences since the chief of state proposed maximum 17 ministries instead of the 16 ministries and 14 departments in the Tarlev-I cabinet. It was presumed that departments would disappear as central administrative institutions and ministries would take over their tasks.

In the context, it is worth to outline that President Voronin had proposed at the end of his mandate, with a couple of days before the 2005 parliamentary elections, to create the ministry of local public administration, and it was expected that the new cabinet of ministers comprise this ministry.

The public opinion does not know so far why this idea was not accomplished. Also, the solution to the three key problems identified by chief of state, which should be solved through creation of the ministry of local public administration is unknown: integration of efforts of central and local power bodies into a “single centre for coordination of planned transformations,” aimed at general modernisation of the country; implementation of the ample project “Moldovan Village” and elimination of the “full lack of coordination” in activity of local public authorities which fulfil the same tasks “as the governmental administration, Justice Ministry and Parliament, and many other structures, and this provokes confusions.”

The fate of the domestic security service SIS is also unknown, since it is not part of any category of named governmental institutions. The state authorities had unlikely given up the services of this institutions.

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