Chicu: The New Program with IMF Should Meet Interests of the Republic of Moldova and Its Citizens, Not Officials

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) mission, headed by Ruben Atoyan, is conducting remote consultations with the Moldovan government. Former Prime Minister Ion Chicu spoke on this matter. The discussion focuses on a new three-year Program and a Memorandum, which the government of Natalia Gavrilita intends to sign with the IMF, infotag.md reports. "The first thing I would like to note is that the country needs a new program with the IMF. And it is very important that the program should take into account the needs of the government and the country, and not primarily the interests of (officials) of the National Bank and external factors of influence," Chicu said. According to the politician, the need for a new program of the government with the IMF seems obvious, given the apparent enthusiasm of the new authorities for populism and the unwillingness to promote the most urgent of the reforms, the territorial-administrative one. "In addition, there is a clear lack of any strategic approach and vision for solving the country's problems on the part of President Maia Sandu. There are great doubts about the competence of most of her colleagues. In such conditions, the program can limit the appetite of the authorities for populist actions, and prevent the public administration system from complete destruction," Ion Chicu stressed. Point