Moldova, hard on the domestic front Europe | DW
The biggest problem is providing Moldova with alternative energy sources – gas and electricity – in the conditions in which Russia could stop supplying them, applying the old tactic against the West: mobilizing the “winter general”.
Another undisputed priority is the acceleration of criminal cases open to large corrupt and embezzlers of public property: Shor, Plahotniuc, Plato, Andronati, Dodon (the last and other charges), and the recovery of millions of euros drained to foreign jurisdictions. It is what the people expect: justice, more justice, the punishment of thieves. The rising cost of living caused by the war in Ukraine is a continuation of the endless hardships that Moldovans have endured as a result of former rapacious, Russophile and oligarchic governments, before Maia Sandu and the party she founded won the elections.
The Bessarabian writer Vitalie Ciobanu
A few trials completed with sentences that would put the big looters in prison for many years would calm the spirits, show courage and willingness to do so. Especially since there are premises: they can be investigated and convicted in absentia and their abusive assets can be confiscated – there are legal provisions that have come into force.
The government is starting to make mistakes
Unfortunately, the current government is starting to make mistakes that will cost it, but also us, the citizens. It is not about the effect of crises caused by external factors – the consequences of the pandemic, the war in Ukraine and the rising prices – but about their own unforced mistakes, mistakes caused by poor communication, which give rise to suspicions and free social tensions.
Representatives of power do not dialogue, do not hold public consultations, I decided abruptly. The biggest scandal and announced reform of higher education, by liquidating several universities and research institutes that will be absorbed by several large universities. We have fewer and fewer students and a merger or “optimization” of resources was inevitable, says the power. And it is a reality.
Dniester near Dubasari
More strange is the insistence of the authorities on the liquidation of research institutes, which will also be “melted” in some universities. Scientists reply: international collaborations will be lost for years, entire directions of research and indispensable funding will be compromised, or universities will have other worries, subject to teaching cycles and technical-administrative emergencies. The promised teaching hours to the dismissed researchers and the increase of salaries are an illusion, although the relevant ministry does not recognize it, given that even the hired professors are fighting for rules – small and poorly paid.
The discussions so far, the protests, the threatened structural declarations, even the appeals of the Romanian Academy, which warned about the danger of abolishing the Bessarabian research institutes, did not lead to anything. Alternative solutions, related to maintaining the legal autonomy of the research center, are not taken into account. The government is “pursuing” the liquidation strategy. The big fight seems to be around the Agrarian University of Chisinau, which has a land of 33 ha, there is speculation that the properties of these institutions are targeted, in no way creating the educational process by absorbing students and faculty from other entities.
The PAS government is ruining its image
Rumors, conspiracy theories are fueled and the untimely dismissal of the Minister of Agriculture, Viorel Gherciu, the reasons for the dismissal were not explained. Gherciu claims that it is a political decision (of course it is political, the man was not an accountant or head of supply!) And also says that he was released because he opposed the abolition of the Agrarian University – the main forging staff in a country based on industry. such as the Republic of Moldova. We do not know if it is true or not, if Viorel Gherciu is trying to victimize himself. The power hastened to appoint a new minister – a person from the political nucleus of PAS, Vladimir Bolea, a well-known specialist in the field, in order to take care that the test of the Agrarian University will be decisive.
The PAS government is ruining the image by this arbitrary, non-transparent style of proceeding, which it accuses its predecessors. It is forcing a reform in public education, which is necessary but which is far from a priority. Not now, not like that. Without prior assessments, which would separate the value imposture, without a public debate, without listening to the people who will bear on their skin the benefits of “resource concentration”, ie unemployment.
Unnecessary tensions, which will increase the avalanche of problems in the fall: energy crisis, rising cost of living, security risks. It will increase in exchange for the rating of Russophile and oligarchic parties – as seen in polls – in a deep society divided on geopolitical criteria. The simple world, the ordinary poor, will wait for the “liberators”, the intellectuals will pack their bags.