Moldovan ruling coalition says pension system reform needed
The exclusion of retirement age privileges for servicemen, judges and prosecutors will liquidate the inequity inherited from the Soviet system, and the extension of the period for paying dues for the pension is a need, Labour, Social Protection and Family Minister Valentina Buliga has said. The MPs of the Alliance for European Integration (AIE) have shared the opinion.
Buliga noted that the accusations brought by the parliamentary opposition that the amended law on pensions will make it impossible for a part of Moldovans to reach the retirement age and receive pensions are just absurdities.
"The life expectancy has significantly grown in Moldova, although it continues to be by about 10 years shorter than in the EU. Nonetheless, this fact should not prevent us from turning to account the potential of the citizens who are able to work, and thus to improve the life quality," Valentina Buliga said.
The junior coalition partner Liberal Party (PL) leader, Mihai Ghimpu, showed content with the removal of the retirement privileges. Yet, he was dissatisfied with the fact that the amendments proposed to the law on pensions see that the MPs of the Gagauzian Popular Assembly (local parliament) have the same status as the Moldovan MPs.
Today, the lawmakers made a string of amendments to the law on pensions. Under this law, almost all the privileged categories, including the servicemen, prosecutors, judges, will retire just as all the other Moldovan citizens, and the period of paying pension dues was extended from 30 to 35 years.
Moldpres
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