Checking Step with the People

Members of the faction “Obnovlenie” hold final meeting with voters at the end of the year according to the established tradition. Deputy of the 13th “Tsentralnyi” (Central) constituency, chairman of the parliamentary faction “Obnovlenie” Peter Pasat was the initiator of the meeting held at the end of last week in Dubossary. The dialogue with residents of Dubossary was also attended by his colleagues, leaders of the two Committees on Economic Policy, Budget and Finance - Oleg Vasilaty, and Galina Antyufeeva on the legislation, law enforcement, protection of the rights and freedoms of citizens.

People’s deputies told the participants of the meeting about the legislature during that year, together with legal and other aspects of the deputies. The Deputy Peter Pasat said that he received 115 voters during the year during the reception of citizens, which is usually hold on Fridays. The place of communication of the deputy is not limited to the walls of his public reception, people can talk with him on the street and in the market, in the store and at home. People concerned about a variety of issues, but the “primacy” of them invariably hold social - payment of contributions to missed Soviet depositations, medical treatment abroad, the problems of housing and communal services, employment, wages. Deputies interact with the executive authorities, both at the level of the republic, and local, the prosecutor's office and other departments to solve these problems.

Peter Pasat said in the course of the meeting that parliamentary delegation headed by Speaker Mikhail Burla visited Moscow this spring, where he held meetings at the Presidential Administration, the State Duma, and the Federation Council. Resolution of the Supreme Council, requesting the Russian leadership to recognize the sovereignty and independence of PMR, was handed to these higher authorities of the Russian Federation.

The dialogue of deputies and residents continued in the format of “question-answer” then. Among discussed topics there were: possibility of holding a second referendum; social protection, in particular, persons with disabilities; rule of law; program of PMR development; medical care and sanatorium resort treatment; irrational spending of budgetary funds; increase in labor hours for employees of budgetary and other industries.