Not all for sale

Deputies adopted law-in-draft “On introducing amendments and addenda to the law “The State Program on Denationalization and Privatization for 2018-2019” in the first reading. Its author is the Government.

Structurally, the document consists of two parts. The first one proposes to privatize 8 organizations in order to obtain additional funds to the budget and ensure their efficient production activities. People's deputies voted unequivocally for its adoption. It was decided to put up for sale shares of various denominations, which now belong to the state. The list of such well-known industrial complexes, such as the clothing company Vestra from Bendery (the state has 25% of the shares), the Rybnitsa cement combine (25% of the shares), the Tiraspol factory Elektromash (100% of the shares), the Kamensky cannery (100 % of shares), CJSC Odema from Tiraspol (100% of shares), etc. At the same time, the Government plans to earn 20 million rubles from the sale of the 100% share of Electromash, and 936 thousand from the Vestra. By the way, the deputies also offered the Government to present preliminary information on potential buyers of the state share in these joint-stock companies to the second reading of the law-in-draft.

The second part of the law-in-draft, that dealt with the denationalisation of 7 organizations in the form of corporatization for the subsequent transfer of the state-owned block of shares to the trust management of the State Management Company OJSC, the parliamentarians expressed disagreement. This is about "Biohim", the Grigoriopol mine, design institutes and the State Unitary Enterprise "Medical Center "TiraMed". Deputies had questions regarding the last item.

Parliamentarian supposes that if the managers of state-owned enterprises do not cope with their functional responsibilities, they should be replaced by more competent and professional ones. At the same time there is no need to produce managers over them from the state management company.

Deputies in this opinion were supported by representatives of the public.

The discussion resulted in the exclusion from the law-in-draft of an application with a list of enterprises subject to incorporation. The deputies decided to consider this law-in-draft in the second reading during the next plenary session, scheduled for June 26.