
Press Review. Friday, 23 July 2021
InfoMarket Agency presents:
* "Moldavskiye Vedomosti"
- Big washing by Maia Sandu
Maia Sandu won the presidential and parliamentary elections, promising to cleanse the country of thieves and corrupt officials, to wash away the stains from the state's reputation. Will she manage to do this?
- Statistics do not know how many of our citizens are abroad, but do they know their salaries?
The earnings of Moldovan citizens abroad are double counted - both as salaries and as remittances from abroad to their homeland.
* "Moldova Suverana"
- More than half of the 101 MPs elected on July 11 are in their first term
The Legislature’s Secretariat announced that it had made available to them several tools for initiating parliamentary activity. According to quoted sources, in the constituent sitting all the MPs will be distributed kits with information and contact details of the distinct subdivisions of the Parliament Secretariat, meant to facilitate their launching as MPs.
* "Ekonomicheskoye Obozreniye"
- FDI inflows are constrained by political instability
The total volume of foreign direct investment (FDI) invested in Moldova for all the years of independence, as of the end of the first quarter of 2021, is $4.73 billion, which is 3.5% more than a year earlier.
- The Accounts Chamber assessed the execution of the 2020 budget
Government's report on the execution of the 2020 state budget, prepared by the Ministry of Finance, “presents, in all material respects, a correct and reliable situation with regard to cash execution, in accordance with the applicable financial reporting framework.”
* Media
- NM Espresso: about 7 billion lei from the IMF, “secret agreements” between Sandu and the US ambassador and about the “faction of formers” (newsmaker.md)
- The new negative record of the Moldovan Railways. In 2020, the losses amounted to 228.8 million lei (mold-street.com)
- Diesel is no longer sold at gas stations. Some of the fuel supply networks say that they do not have it in stock yet (agora.md)