Alexander Korshunov, “I urge to pay off utility debts”

The Supreme Council of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic opened the VII session of the VII convocation on the 17th of January. Chairman of the Supreme Council of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic Alexander Korshunov outlined in an interview with journalists the key legislative plans for the spring session of parliament.

The Speaker emphasized that at the beginning of the new financial year the main task of the deputy corps will be to work on increasing wages for teachers and medical workers.

The Supreme Council in the spring session will continue preparing for the adoption of important codified acts – the Budget Code of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic, which has already been adopted in the first reading, the Urban Planning Code, the draft of which was submitted to parliament in November 2023.

Work will begin in the spring session to improve the legislation that regulates utility tariffs, according to Alexander Korshunov.

The speaker noted that the debt to the enterprises of natural monopolies of the part of the population that pays only some utilities at this stage reaches 60 million rubles.

The PMR President Vadim Krasnoselsky announced the annual message to government authorities on the 22nd of January. A separate block of instructions was intended for the Supreme Council; they will become an important area of legislative work for the deputy corps for the coming year. There are instructions for ministries, solutions for which the Supreme Council will also help find.