Chicu: The Sandu Government Has Not Met Conditions the Funding Was Received

The Sandu government has not complied with any conditions for which external funding was received in 2019, Ion Chicu said. Prime Minister Ion Chicu said that money from abroad received in the Republic of Moldova in 2019 was offered on terms set between 2015 and 2018. The head of the executive branch states that the charges made by former Prime Minister Maya Sandu are only “political statements” and are not true, unimedia.info reports. The head of the cabinet also commented on the accusation of the former prime minister that the next two tranches of macro-financial support were not allocated by the European Union on the grounds that this "government is not trustworthy and is not carrying out reforms." “During the 5-month period of the Sandu government, the EU received about 70 million euros, exclusively on conditions fulfilled between 2015 and 2018. There are no conditions on which the money was received in 2019, fulfilled by the Sandu government. This is a merit Republic of Moldova, "said Ion Chicu as part of the Puterea a Patra program. According to the official, the second tranche of macro-financial assistance, which was supposed to come, according to Maya Sandu, also in December, also implies "additional conditions." “When the Sandu government left, there were two more important conditions that were not met - the Law on Public Procurement and the Law on Combating Money Laundering. On November 14, work on these two laws did not even begin ... How could a tranche come in December if there were no laws? We developed them, approved them in the government, and now they are in parliament. Formally, we will fulfill these conditions in March, "Ion Chicu said. According to him, external assistance in 2019 amounted to about 2.4% of total budget expenditures.