Moldova: War is war, but cutting is on schedule
The protests widely announced by the right-wing forces in Moldova remained in the announcements. In the center of Chisinau, only a few representatives of the farming community are protesting sluggishly (only interfering with public transport) (see. Maidan in Chisinau was buried with tractors).
Meanwhile, right-wing parliamentarians are calmly negotiating with the parliamentary majority on “monetary” issues.
Millions were enough for everyone
“Who received how much money as a result of the night session of parliament?” asked Inna Shupak, a member of the Moldovan legislative body of four convocations, and now the executive director of the Institute for Strategic Initiatives.
“To answer this question, I analyzed more than 800 parliamentary proposals for the state budget. So, if the accusations of misappropriation of public money are true, then all parliamentary factions and groups took part in it,” the expert reports on Facebook.
We are talking about amendments to the expenditure side of the recently adopted state budget. Mainly about transfers from the state budget. The total amount of the issue is almost 356 million Moldovan lei. At the current exchange rate, this is, for example, more than one and a half billion Russian rubles. Or seventeen and a half million euros. Maybe some won’t be too impressed, but believe me, by Moldovan standards this is a steep sum.
Representatives of the Platform “Dignity and Truth” (the same ones who threatened not to allow the budget to be adopted at all) and the Party “Action and Solidarity” (members of the new President Maia Sandu, who staged a brawl in parliament during the first reading) sent fifty-one amendments to the law on the state budget . And the parliamentary majority approved everything!
Even the socialists were more selective about their own amendments - acceptance was not 384% (388 amendments out of 225). But they were generous both for recent enemies from the Shor party and the Pentru Moldova group, and for independent deputies (all 225 amendments out of 25 were adopted). And only the democrats and the “Pro Moldova” group were less fortunate - although XNUMX of their proposals were still accepted.
There is a suspicion that the analysis of the ex-parliamentarian will not be shown in the news broadcasts of either “right-wing” or “socialist” TV channels...
Inna Shupak
Useful things are not taken in secret
You can, of course, refer to the fact that the budget is still a necessary matter. That the opposition should still make amendments in the interests of voters, and the authorities should consider all useful proposals. And, of course, both sides, if something happens, will refer to this. But let me doubt their future sincerity!
The parliamentary meeting was broadcast, as usual, in real time. And for some reason observers do not remember a constructive conversation about the amendments - both sides of the conflict were mainly engaged in the exchange of veiled and not so veiled accusations. And it is impossible to constructively discuss 829 amendments to the budget during a meeting and decide which 685 of them are useful and which 144 are not so much. More precisely, this is physically possible, but then the meeting would not end by night (they adopted not only the budget), but by next week.
Everything was proposed, of course, behind the scenes, and a draft budget with all (or almost all) amendments was presented to the meeting. In principle, it is not punishable; it is surprising that both the right and the left chose to remain silent about the fact of cooperation.
How would everything have been if we were talking about the amendments that the people were waiting for? The right would trumpet the whole world that they are seeking to fulfill the will of voters even in opposition. And the socialists boasted of making useful decisions, keeping silent about who proposed them. The right would respond by accusing the socialists of appropriating the merits of others, and the socialists would switch to boasting about their constructiveness.
Those who are accustomed to the Moldovan political cuisine would easily calculate the scenario. It will also be easy to answer why transfers are needed that are not boasted about out loud.
Oh, this scheme was tested in Moldova a long time ago! Where it is possible to help two or three objects with budget money, they suddenly decide to help only one, but for the same or a larger amount - one that he physically cannot handle. Can you guess whose business partners help in such cases to master this attraction of unprecedented generosity?
To help each other out - there would be revenue!
There is a Moldavian proverb: “Friendship is friendship, but cheese is for money” (cf. Russian “but tobacco apart”). You can put “Enmity with enmity” in this proverb - this will be exactly our situation.
Isn’t the Party of Socialists “quietly” negotiating with the “right” in the Chisinau Municipal Council? The socialists have 22 votes there (26 are needed for a majority), the “platformists” have 9, and the “Sandovites”. Moreover, the “right ally” in voting periodically changes, ostentatious mutual criticism remains, and for some reason the facts of “joint work” are not reported in the media by representatives of any of the three parties.
Chisinau Municipal Council.
Or how touchingly the deputies raised their own salaries! The “right” then criticized the “government of socialist democrats”, but voted with them for the increase!
Or the recently adopted scandalous law abolishing the minimum wage. Many economists and social activists are sounding the alarm: now low-skilled labor will pour into Moldova, leaving local specialists without work. And the deputies – whether “right” or “left”, whether “pro-European” or “pro-Russian” - don’t give a damn.
By the way, it was Dodon’s supporters who accused Sandu of wanting to bring “thirty thousand Syrian refugees” to Moldova. And Sandu’s supporters accused Dodon of spreading fake news. Well, who turned out worse in the end?
This is the Moldovan elite. She doesn’t need kicks from abroad to do nasty things to her own people. When it comes to getting rich, there is always an agreement.
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