Activity of the President on April 1–15, 2009

Decrees

State distinctions:

The Honour Order was awarded to Svetlana Mihailescu, deputy director of the Theoretical High School Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu based in the Chisinau municipality;
The Labour Glory Order was awarded to Elvira Griu, director of the Chisinau-based Theoretical High School Mircea Eliade. The same distinction was awarded to Pavel Buceatchi, minister of information development;
Anna Cercasova, director of the public association Oraselul Copilariei based in Pirita village, Dubasari rayon, was awarded the Civic Merit Medal.

Sittings. Decisions. Statements

Restoration of Parliament and Presidency buildings

Moldova’s president has convoked a sitting on restoration of buildings stormed on April 7. According to a report presented by minister of construction and area development, the preliminary cost of repairing works is estimated at more than 300 million lei and this amount does not cover deteriorated furniture and equipment. Vladimir Voronin stressed the necessity to urgently begin the reconstruction works and the necessary amounts will be covered from the funds for educational institutions.

Accusations against Romania

During a briefing on April 10, 2009 Moldova’s president stressed the importance of investigating “forms and methods of Romanian citizens’ participation in preparations for the April 7 events.” According to Voronin, known facts already build evidence in this regard:

The advising of the three political parties (Liberal Democratic Party, Liberal Party and “Moldova Noastra” Alliance) by the Romanian Embassy at all stages of electoral campaign;
The organisation of large groups of young students and their partial transportation to the Republic of Moldova to participate in the street protests;
The participation of Romanian citizens and experts in the April 7 events;
The active information support provided by all Romanian media outlets to street protests, the interpretation of these events as fair and revolutionary.

Discontentment with condition of professional education

Moldova’s president has convoked a sitting on reorganisation and optimisation of secondary-professional and vocational education institutions, signalling some serious shortcomings in the professional-technical education system relating to: quality of the education process; relevance for labour market; efficiency of use of financial, material and human resources. It was noted that the network of professional schools and colleges is much extended, having curricula which do not meet the market requirements; these institutions were not covered by the modernisation process, becoming inefficient and producing very large expenses. It was invoked the indifference and lack of reaction towards lots of controls by the Chamber of Auditors, which established grave violations in terms of accreditation of colleges and professional schools; management of funds and estates; violation of legislation on establishing of education and hostel accommodation fees; abuses related to acquisition of goods, signing of renting contracts and bookkeeping. The president ordered the reorganisation and modernisation of the professional education system accordingly to technical progress and needs of the country. He instructed the Government to work out and implement a plan on reorganisation and modernisation of colleges and professional and vocational schools, so that the educational process to restart under new conditions on September 1, 2009.

Discontentment with public procurements in healthcare system

Vladimir Voronin has chaired a sitting on organisation of public acquisitions for necessities of the healthcare system and drug control, reiterating very grave shortcomings of the medications procurement mechanism in the healthcare sector. The chief of state invoked the inefficiency of the regulation on acquisition of medications for the healthcare system, the lack of an anti-corruption survey on this document, as well as of a mandatory methodology for assessing the participants in auctions, the lack of a planning of necessities on drugs for a certain period. It was indicated the personal responsibility of decision makers from the Drug Agency with the inefficient existing mechanism of organisation and conduct of public procurements, as well as of control on drug prices, which endangers the quality of medical services and obstructs a strict control on prices of drugs purchased via public acquisitions. The chief of state demanded the dismissal of the Drug Agency director-general for non-state attitude towards his service.

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