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Report on the first 100 days

The prime minister has tabled a report on the Government’s first 100 days that presents the situation since the cabinet took over the tasks (September 25, 2009), when the country was facing a serious economic crisis, had an antagonised and divided society, was isolated from other countries and had frozen relations with development partners. According to the report, the former government did not hand over the authority in a civilised manner and the cabinet in office had to do in three months what its predecessor should do in one year — drafting the budgetary-fiscal policy, the Medium-Term Expense Framework, the State Budget Law etc. According to Premier Filat, in 2009 (first 9–10 months) the country’s economy suffered the gravest economic decline in the last 15 years: — the GDP decreased by 7.7 percent in January-September 2009; — exports and imports dropped by 24.2 percent and 36.9 percent; — investment inflows have suddenly fallen; — investments in fixed capital decreased by 42.5 percent; — industrial production declined by 24.3 percent (in comparable prices); — agricultural production in all farms turned over 89.8 percent (in comparable prices); -a 16-percent annual budgetary deficit of GDP was forecasted before the new cabinet was appointed, but the Government succeeded to reduce it to 7.8 percent at the end of the year; — the economic crisis hit the state budget incomes, which dropped by 8.6 percent, while electoral rises of wages and pensions in 2009 increased public expenses by 3.7 percent.

The following progress in implementing the Priorities of Governance was mentioned:

• The European Integration and Foreign Policy Agenda is being implemented, by enhancing the Moldova-EU relations and bilateral dialogue with EU member states;
• The impact of the economic crisis is being controlled, as relations with IMF were resumed, the dialogue with the World Bank, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and European Investment Bank has developed, and public expenses were reviewed and prioritized;
• An economic growth is underway again, as actions were taken to remove administrative restrictions, build a friendly business environment, demonopolize the import and export, apply innovative reporting technologies for economic agents, start reforming the legal and institutional framework on entrepreneurship regulation;
• The agriculture is being sustained, as the subsidising fund for this sector was completed by 250 million lei, the supply of wines in bulk was relieved, and barriers for grape exports and some administrative obstacles which increased the production costs were removed;
• As for the social sector, resources were found to implement a new social assistance system, which is expected to increase social assistance allocations by 40 percent in 2010, compared with 2009 (allocations will amount to about 630 million lei). The single indemnity on childbirth for 2010 was increased by 300 lei;
• The state budget funding to the healthcare system was increased, as transfers to the mandatory health insurance funds went up by 5.4 percent, compared with 2009. Transfers for 2010 will cover 58 percent of overall mandatory health insurance funds. The spreading and fight against pandemic flu A (H1N1) were stabilised;
• Progresses in the area of judiciary and rule of law include execution of previous laws on Supreme Council of Magistrates and Prosecution reform, liberalisation of notary profession (liquidation of public notaries), as well as ongoing legislative changes aimed to liberalise the execution of judgements, reform the bar, dissolve economic and military law courts etc.

Commission in charge with finding funds

Prime minister has demanded to be set up a special commission to find funds needed to compensate the difference of electricity, gas and heating tariffs for socially vulnerable categories. The Government gets involved after the National Agency for Energy Regulation decided to increase these tariffs starting January 19, 2010.

Aid for Albania

The executive decided to provide humanitarian assistance to flooded Albania. The assistance is estimated at about 700,000 lei.

Instructions for cultural authorities

The prime minister instructed the state minister and culture minister at a cabinet sitting on January 9 to build a monument to torture victims in front of the Parliament of Moldova before April 7, 2010. The culture minister was instructed to propose changes to legislation at the next cabinet sitting, so that to allow Moldovan citizens to watch movies in official languages at cinema theatres inclusively. According to the premier, “the approach shall be very clear, raise interest all citizens of the Republic of Moldova, without harming the rights of anybody”.

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