Activity of the Government on January 1–16, 2011

Events of major importance

The Team and Program of new Government

On January 14, 2011, the new Government received the confidence vote of the parliamentary majority, formed as a result of early elections of November 28, 2010.Members of the Executive invested on January 14, 2011:

Vladimir FILAT — Prime Minister;
Iurie LEANCA — Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Foreign Affairs and European Integration;
Valeriu LAZAR — Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Economy;
Eugen CARPOV — Deputy Prime Minister (on country’s reintegration, without a ministry);
Mihai MOLDOVANU — Deputy Prime Minister (Social Affairs, no ministry);
Veaceslav NEGRUTA — Minister of Finances;
Alexandru TANASE — Minister of Justice;
Alexei ROIBU — Minister of Internal Affairs;
Vitalie MARINUTA — Minister of Defense;
Marcel RADUCAN — Minister of Regional Development and Construction;
Vasile BUMACOV — Minister of Agriculture and Food Industry;
Anatol SALARU — Minister of Transport and Road Infrastructure;
Gheorghe SALARU — Minister of Environment;
Mihai SLEAHTITCHI — Minister of Education;
Boris FOCSA — Minister of Culture;
Valentina BULIGA — Minister of Labour, Social Protection and Family;
Andrei USATII — Minister of Health;
Ion CEBANU — Minister of Youth and Sports;
Pavel FILIP — Minister of Information Technology and Communications.

The composition of the Government includes also two ex officio members:

Gheorghe DUCA — President of Moldovan Academy of Science;
Mihail FORMUZAL — Governor of Gagauzia (Gagauz Yeri).

ADEPT Note: Several new ministers entered into the new Cabinet of Ministers, but only the Liberal Democratic Party of Moldova decided to change 2 leaders of ministries: Education and Internal Affairs, the other parliamentary parties deciding to preserve their representatives in previously held positions .The Liberal Party decided just to replace the Deputy Prime Minister on social issues.

The Program for Governmental activity for the period 2011–2014 is entitled “European Integration: Freedom, Democracy, Welfare”, with several general priorities:

European integration;
Country’s reintegration;
Effective and balanced foreign policy;
The rule of law;
Fighting poverty. Qualitative public services;
Sustainable economic growth;
Decentralization of power.

ADEPT Note: The first clause in the text itself of the Governance Program provides “To develop and adopt a new Constitution”, a provision that has generated tough criticism from the parliamentary opposition. The opposition also criticized the lack of concrete indicators in the text for further performance assessment of the governmental program.

Meetings. Decisions

Consultations on the new Activity Program of the Government

Before presenting the draft Programme of Government to Parliament, the candidate for position of Prime Minister, Vladimir Filat, has held consultations on issues to be address in the new document. Thus, he met with:

Representatives of the National Confederation of Trade Unions of Moldova;
Representatives of Moldovan National Confederation of Employers;
Members of National Council for Participation.

ADEPT Note: Consultations have had rather the character of some discussions, since the draft Program was not distributed prior for consideration, but the nominated prime minister assured that all proposals will be studied and taken into account in the Program’ text or in activity plans and documents of sectorial policies.

Continuous concerns regarding the situation on pharmaceutical market

In early January, Prime Minister Vladimir Filat convened several meetings on the situation on pharmaceutical market and state regulation in this area. Discussions focused on implementation of the Governmental Decision regarding the Regulation on the method of approving and registering the producers’ prices for medicines, hearing the information, according to which — in the National Catalogue of producer’ prices for medicines 2670 positions were included (out of 4300 drug names that are imported into the Republic of Moldova) and for more than half of them a decrease in price by over 39% is noticed. Representatives of the Medicines Agency have mentioned that economic operators have reduced prices by up to 10 lei for 63% of products, up to 50 lei for 30%, between 50–100 lei — 5% of products, and over 100 lei — for 3% of products. The Prime Minister requested to carry out inspections and to report on the situation concerning the new drug prices and the reduction that took place.

Evaluation of performance indicators

The Study on the assessment of performance indicators of the 2005 Paris Declaration on aid effectiveness was launched in the Government. Declaration on aid effectiveness has been signed by the ministers responsible for promoting the development in order to resolve and undertake estimable actions to reform the way of granting and managing the assistance. Five principles of the declaration have been agreed and confirmed: Membership, Alignment, Harmonisation, Management for results and Mutual Accountability. 12 performance indicators were also established that were evaluated over every two years. Republic of Moldova endorsed the Declaration in October 2006.Along the way, there was need for a Study assessing the performance indicators, to assist in planning future actions and to facilitate the global management of financial assistance. This study will also track the progress and will report the challenges and opportunities for further progress in the partner countries.

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