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Activity of the President on April 4–17, 2005

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Investment of Moldovan president in office

Vladimir Voronin was invested as president of Moldova after the Constitutional Court had validated the results of presidential elections.

“The events the past days represent a kind of prologue of an absolutely new stage in history of our country. The election of the chief of state served for the first time as s sort of unique occasion for union and consolidation of different political forces,” President Voronin said. He noted that this is a result of mobilization of political forces for accomplishment of the European integration objective of Moldova.

“Three tasks” were named among priorities of his new mandate:

  1. insurance of unbiased and incorruptible courts, competent and modern mass media, all the modern mechanisms of expression of will;
  2. accomplishment of a “great post-industrial jump”, so that the economic development be based first of all on resources such as science and top technologies;
  3. creation of a modern system of social guarantees.

Also, President Voronin highlighted the need to reintegrate the state, expressing conviction that this goal will be fulfilled with the support of foreign partners of Moldova.

Reformation of Government. 7/7 tasks

The chief of state expressed his vision regarding the reformation of executive at the April 8 parliamentary sitting. Vladimir Voronin established seven strategic tasks for activity of the cabinet of ministers in 2005–2009:

In addition, Vladimir Voronin indicated seven permanent tasks:

It is hard to say whether the same number of strategic and permanent tasks for the new executive is an accident. However, it is sure that figure “7” will be a reference point of “luck or bad luck” of the Tarlev-II cabinet after four years.

It is worth to mention that the implementation of the 2004–2008 national human rights plan, national strategy on prevention and combat of corruption, and action plan on its accomplishment, documents approved by the precedent legislature has a distinct place in any of these categories of tasks. The E.U. Action Plan for Moldova highlights the need to implement these two documents, and the plan was named in the list of strategic tasks, and this could be an explanation why they are not part of the list of tasks of the Tarlev-II cabinet. However, distinct, strategic or permanent tasks should be drafted in connection with these plans, since the two documents envisage complex sectors and serious deficiencies in these sectors.

Making a short commentary of the chief of state’s vision on government reformation, it is worth to mention that the president wants this process be held in two stages. According to the president, maximum 17 ministries must replace the 16 ministries and 14 departments within the first stage, while the staffs of the future executive will lose 70 percent of bureaucracy by November 14. Reduction of staffs must be followed by a rise of salaries of public functionaries up to 400–1,500 dollars, Voronin said, and strict selection of qualified specialists for new personnel units on basis of a contest.

February 14 – March 6, 2005 May 2–22, 2005