President Yevgeny Shevchuk noted in his address to Pridnestrovians that now a number of MPs are fraudulently promising to pay pensions and salaries in full volume.
«The facts show this is a deception. In 9 months of 2015 the budget received 857 million roubles for the provision of pensions, whereas pensions were paid at an amount of 1.435 billion roubles. The country borrowed about 600 million roubles for paying current pensions," stated the president.
Yevgeny Shevchuk also mentioned that deputies had not approved in due time a number of draft laws submitted by the government and the president for stabilising the economic situation. Among the required reforms are the Tax Code, antimonopoly law, anti-crisis laws, which have been under consideration for years, and the offshore duty law.
«I had to introduce the latter with a presidential decree, which has resulted in a 10% increase in payments! If these laws had been approved in due time, the arrears issue would not have emerged!» underscored Yevgeny Shevchuk, adding that it is ahead of the elections when a number of candidates, including acting MPs, are generating conflicts between people and creating hostility in the society.
«There is a peculiar situation: those deputies who form the majority, representing interests of big business, vote against additional sources for budget revenues on the one hand, but on the other hand they vote for the budget lacking for sources of funding for pensions and salaries at an amount of $50 million. And this happens amid the crisis and external pressure," summarises the president.
