Our Programme

Introduction — Our Vision

“Bună Ziua” is not just a greeting. It is how Moldova meets every morning — and how we want to meet one another: with respect, with dignity, and with confidence that tomorrow can be better.

The “Bună Ziua” Civic Platform was born of ordinary people — doctors, teachers, farmers, entrepreneurs, young people who have come back home — who are tired of waiting for someone else to solve their community’s problems. We are not a party of television promises. We are a civic movement built from the bottom up, locality by locality, district by district.

Our values:

  • Dignity — every person matters, whatever village or town they were born in.
  • Competence — public office is filled on merit, not by cronyism.
  • Transparency — every public leu spent can be traced by any citizen.
  • Community — decisions are taken close to people, not in distant offices.
  • A future at home — a Moldova where our children want to stay.

Five measurable goals by 2031:

  1. An average salary across the economy of at least 25,000 lei; no young person forced to leave in search of a decent wage.
  2. Drinking water in every locality and sewerage in at least half of them; roads passable all year round.
  3. A family doctor and a modern school no more than 30 minutes from every home.
  4. Local budgets 100% public and open to citizens’ scrutiny; not a single public contract without open tendering.
  5. The effectively irrigated area tripled; Moldovan wine present on the world’s markets under its own brand.

How to read this programme. Every chapter answers five questions: what the problem is today, in official figures; what exactly we will do; by when; with what money; and how the citizen will know that we have succeeded. If a commitment cannot be measured, it has no place here.

The programme is written for the 2027 local elections and for the 2027–2031 mandate, in the logic of the National Development Strategy “European Moldova 2030”.

Economy and Jobs

The problem today. The average gross salary was 13,990 lei in 2024, and the minimum wage 5,500 lei from 1 January 2025. The economy grew by only 0.1% in 2024. The country has 74,590 enterprises, of which 99.7% are SMEs — that is, the real economy is made up of small businesses, precisely the ones most suffocated by bureaucracy and expensive credit. Informal employment remains high (17.3% in 2025, after 23% in 2023): almost one employee in five works without full social protection.

What we will do:

  1. Industrial platforms and small business parks in every district, with utilities connected from regional development funds — land and infrastructure must not be the investor’s problem.
  2. A “First Job” programme: partial compensation of social contributions for 12 months for employers who hire young people under 30 in rural areas.
  3. A local guarantee fund for SMEs, modelled on the existing guarantee funds: public guarantees for the loans of firms creating at least 5 jobs.
  4. A single window at the town hall for all local permits, with published maximum deadlines and administrative silence counting as approval once the deadline has expired.
  5. Formalising work: information campaigns combined with targeted inspections in the sectors with high informality (construction, agriculture, trade).
  6. Local public procurement open to firms from the region, with all contracts published in full.

Deadlines: the single window and the publication of contracts — 2027; the district platforms, at least one operational per district — by 2029; the “First Job” programme — from 2028.

Funding: regional development funds and the “European Village” programme, the state budget (SME support programmes), European pre-accession funds, public-private partnerships for the platforms.

Measurable result by 2031: an average salary of at least 25,000 lei; informal employment below 10%; at least 20,000 new jobs created or formalised outside the capital.

Agriculture and Viticulture

The problem today. Agriculture remains the backbone of exports, but it works with last century’s technology. Of the roughly 217,500 hectares formally equipped for irrigation, specialist estimates put the area actually irrigated at only 30,000–40,000 hectares — the rest of the infrastructure has decayed. Recurring droughts cut the harvests year after year. In viticulture, Romania alone bought some 45 million dollars’ worth of Moldovan wine in 2025 — proof that the product is in demand; the problem is that much of the value is lost through exports of raw material and bulk wine rather than wine bottled under our own brands. The National Fund for the Development of Agriculture had 1.7 billion lei planned for 2025 — money that often arrives late and without transparency.

What we will do:

  1. Irrigation: rehabilitating the existing systems basin by basin, with water user associations managed transparently; priority to the south of the country and the drought-affected basins.
  2. Subsidies on time: a public payment calendar, announced before the season; the rules do not change in the middle of the farming year.
  3. District centres for collection, sorting, refrigeration and processing — so that the farmer sells a product, not a harvest at the first price offered.
  4. A “Wine of Moldova — our own brand” programme: support for bottling and branding at small and medium wineries, joint promotion through the National Office of Vine and Wine, and wine tourism routes in every region.
  5. Affordable agricultural insurance against drought and hail, with the premium publicly co-financed.
  6. Processing at home: small canning lines, dryers and bottling facilities — supported through competitive grants with published criteria.
  7. Agricultural vocational schools and technology transfer: drip irrigation, greenhouses, satellite monitoring of soil moisture.

Deadlines: the public subsidy calendar — from the 2027 season; the first 10 district collection centres — by 2029; the irrigation programme, phased by basin — 2027–2031.

Funding: the National Fund for the Development of Agriculture and the Rural Environment, EU funds and those of development partners (irrigation and value chain projects), publicly guaranteed preferential loans.

Measurable result by 2031: an effectively irrigated area of at least 100,000 hectares; wine bottled under its own brand making up the majority of exports; no farmer without access to a collection point in their own district.

Infrastructure and Construction

The problem today. The national road network totals 5,993 km, and the local roads — by far the worst — are the ones people use every day. The Road Fund had some 2.59 billion lei in 2025, executed at 96.7% — the money is spent, but without stable public priorities, quality remains a lottery. Only just over 69% of localities have a public water supply system, and public sewerage exists in only about 11% of localities. Whole villages still depend on wells and on partial street lighting.

What we will do:

  1. Public four-year road plans in every district and locality: priorities set by traffic, access to school and doctor, and the actual condition of the road — published, and not changed on political criteria.
  2. Water and sewerage: extending the networks with priority to localities without a public system; realistically sized treatment plants, maintained through regional operators.
  3. Full LED street lighting in every locality: safety, and lower bills for town halls.
  4. Quality standards and a minimum five-year warranty for local road works; acceptance of works with community representatives taking part; a mandatory board showing the cost, the deadline and the contractor at every public construction site.
  5. Predictable local public transport: transparently subsidised routes between villages and district centres, aligned with school and working hours.
  6. Energy renovation of public buildings: schools, kindergartens, medical points, cultural homes.

Deadlines: the public road plans — in the first 100 days of the mandate; full LED lighting — by 2029; public water in every locality — by 2031.

Funding: the Road Fund (including its local roads component), the “European Village” programme, the National Fund for Regional and Local Development, EU funds, and development partners’ loans for water and sewerage.

Measurable result by 2031: public water in 100% of localities and sewerage in at least 50%; every public work covered by a warranty and an information board; village-to-district-centre travel times visibly reduced on the routes included in the plans.

Health

The problem today. Life expectancy is 71.9 years (2023) — among the lowest in Europe. Infant mortality was 11.8 per 1,000 in 2024. Public spending on health is about 4.1% of GDP (2023), while patients’ out-of-pocket payments amount to some 43% of total spending — in other words, illness remains a financial risk for the family. Villages are losing their family doctors, and prevention is the weak link: people reach a doctor late, when treatment is expensive and the chances are small.

What we will do:

  1. A guaranteed family doctor: a real package of incentives for rural doctors — service housing, a salary supplement paid on time, an equipped surgery, a guaranteed medical assistant.
  2. Systematic prevention: free screening programmes (blood pressure, diabetes, cervical and colorectal cancer) in every district, with medical caravans for isolated villages; the national strategic target — reducing mortality from non-communicable diseases by 30% by 2030 — we adopt as a local indicator.
  3. Modernised medical points and social pharmacies in localities without permanent services; mobile pharmacies for isolated villages.
  4. Faster emergency care: equipment and ambulances for district points, with response times published annually, by district.
  5. Mother and child health: complete free check-ups, support for district maternity units.
  6. Mental health: psychologists in schools and community services, without stigma and without months-long queues.
  7. An electronic medical record accessible to the patient; online appointments with the family doctor and district specialists.

Deadlines: the incentive package for rural doctors — 2027–2028; organised screening in all districts — from 2028; publication of response times — annually, from 2028.

Funding: the Mandatory Health Insurance Fund (some 19 billion lei a year), the state budget, development partners’ projects for medical infrastructure, local budgets for the service housing.

Measurable result by 2031: no citizen more than 30 minutes from emergency care; every locality with a family doctor or a functioning medical point; the share of patients’ out-of-pocket payments in steady decline, published annually.

Education

The problem today. In the 2024/25 school year, Moldova had 1,185 schools and 335,067 pupils — a network built for a much larger population, with buildings that are expensive to maintain and, often, near-empty classrooms in the villages and overcrowded ones in the cities. The PISA 2022 results — 414 points in mathematics, 417 in reading, 411 in science — are far below the European average: our children learn less than their peers in the region. In kindergartens (1,469 institutions, 127.2 thousand children) there are 72 children per 100 places — but the places are missing exactly where the young families are. Teachers are ageing, and the young do not join the system at today’s salaries.

What we will do:

  1. No school “optimisation” without a real alternative: safe and free school transport, a checked route, and a publicly set maximum commuting time for children.
  2. Teachers: competitive salaries benchmarked against the average salary in the economy, service housing for the young in rural areas, paid continuing training tied to practice.
  3. Infrastructure: repairs and efficient heating, laboratories, libraries, fast internet — with the priorities published district by district.
  4. Free hot meals in primary education.
  5. Kindergartens: expanded capacity wherever there are waiting lists; extended hours aligned with parents’ working schedules.
  6. Dual vocational education with local employers: modern agriculture, construction, IT, services — with paid placements and employment after graduation.
  7. After-school programmes in every larger locality: sport, robotics, foreign languages, the arts.
  8. Local scholarships for achievement and for the professions the region lacks.

Deadlines: guaranteed school transport — from the 2027/28 school year; hot meals in primary school — 2028; the district school infrastructure plan — in the first 100 days.

Funding: the state budget (education’s share moving towards the 8% benchmark assumed in European programmes), local budgets, EU funds for infrastructure and digitalisation, partnerships with employers for dual education.

Measurable result by 2031: PISA results rising with every testing cycle; the teacher shortage reduced in every district; no locality with a kindergarten waiting list longer than one year.

Social Protection, Family and Demography

The problem today. The 2024 census counted 2,409,207 inhabitants. In 2025, 22,108 children were born and 32,074 people died — the country is shrinking even without emigration. The average pension was 3,835.86 lei on 1 January 2025 — less than half the average salary. Diaspora transfers sustain consumption (about 10.4% of GDP in the first quarter of 2025), but they cannot replace a functioning economy and social protection system.

What we will do:

  1. Predictable pensions and allowances: indexation by clear rules, announced in advance; no overnight “reforms”.
  2. Real community social services: social and personal assistants paid on time, social canteens, day centres for the elderly and for children, home care for elderly people living alone.
  3. Young families: fair allowances, guaranteed kindergarten access, local housing programmes for the young specialists (doctors, teachers, engineers) who choose the locality.
  4. Accessibility: ramps, adapted transport and supported employment for people with disabilities; a public audit of the accessibility of public buildings.
  5. Reintegration of those who return: recognition of work experience gained abroad, a single counselling window, support for small businesses.
  6. Zero tolerance for domestic violence: functioning shelters and support lines in every region, clear police–social services protocols.

Deadlines: the accessibility audit and the map of social services by locality — 2027; day centres in every district — by 2029; housing programmes for specialists — from 2028.

Funding: the State Social Insurance Budget, local budgets, European and partner funds for social infrastructure, diaspora reintegration programmes.

Measurable result by 2031: no elderly person living alone without a designated social assistant; waiting times for essential social services published and reduced every year; active housing programmes in every district.

Regions and Local Government

The problem today. Moldova has over 800 localities and hundreds of small town halls, many with budgets that barely cover the staff’s salaries. Local budgets spent some 32.06 billion lei in 2025, but real financial autonomy remains weak: town halls depend on transfers and on competitive national programmes. The “European Village” programme showed that the mechanism works — 612 projects and 2.797 billion lei in the 2024 edition — but access depends too much on a town hall’s ability to write projects, rather than on real needs.

What we will do:

  1. Decentralisation with money, not just responsibilities: no new duty for town halls without the funding source indicated in the law.
  2. Project support: district teams for writing and administering external projects, at the disposal of small town halls — so that need, not bureaucratic talent, decides the funding.
  3. 100% transparent budgets: the budget, procurement, contracts and execution reports online, in a readable format, for every town hall; council meetings broadcast publicly.
  4. Inter-communal cooperation for water, waste and transport: shared services, lower costs.
  5. Transparent criteria for allocating national investment: measurable needs (population, distances, the state of the infrastructure), published before the competitions.
  6. Digital public services plus a physical counter kept open: nobody excluded for lacking internet access.
  7. Guaranteed minimum service thresholds for small villages: doctor, school/school transport, water, lighting — regardless of the number of inhabitants.

Deadlines: the district project teams — 2027; budgets online in a readable format — 2028; the public investment criteria — from the 2028 budget cycle.

Funding: the National Fund for Regional and Local Development, the “European Village” programme and its successors, EU funds for local government, local budgets.

Measurable result by 2031: every town hall with its budget and procurement published in full; the share of external projects won by small town halls rising every year; guaranteed minimum services functioning in every locality.

Justice and Anti-Corruption

The problem today. Citizens’ trust in the justice system remains among the lowest of any institution, trials last for years, and at local level it is petty corruption — permits, land, procurement — that people meet every day. The national justice reform is advancing slowly; but the town hall is the place where integrity can be demonstrated at once, without waiting for Chișinău.

What we will do:

  1. Complete local transparency: council meetings broadcast and archived publicly, named votes published, and the asset and interest declarations of local elected officials easy to find, not buried in scanned PDFs.
  2. Procurement 100% electronic, with the contract and its annexes published in full; internal thresholds stricter than the law for direct purchases.
  3. Conflicts of interest: a public local register; an immediate political sanction — withdrawal of support and of office for “Bună Ziua” elected officials caught with undeclared conflicts.
  4. Protection for integrity whistleblowers in local institutions.
  5. Access to justice: free legal aid points in district centres for vulnerable people; public information about deadlines and avenues of appeal.
  6. Integrity education in schools and local campaigns: petty corruption is still corruption.
  7. An annual public audit of the town hall, with the results presented to the community and a remedial plan with deadlines.

Deadlines: the local transparency package — in the first 100 days in every “Bună Ziua” town hall; the first public audit — in the first year of the mandate.

Funding: local budgets (minimal costs — transparency is cheap), EU and partner programmes for integrity and legal aid.

Measurable result by 2031: 100% of procurement by “Bună Ziua” town halls electronic and published; every local elected official with an up-to-date public declaration; the average time for resolving petitions published and reduced every year.

We start with ourselves: “Bună Ziua” candidates publish their assets and income before the elections, not after.

Energy and Environment

The problem today. Moldova imports most of its energy; in the fourth quarter of 2025, 62.7% of electricity purchases were imports from Romania, while domestic renewable production accounted for 15.3% of purchases. Installed renewable capacity has reached some 858.5 MW (2025: 605.59 MW solar and 229.02 MW wind, ANRE data) — real progress, but uninsulated buildings continue to waste the cheapest energy of all: the energy not consumed. On the environment: unauthorised dumps, polluted rivers, and too few forests for an agricultural country exposed to drought.

What we will do:

  1. Energy efficiency first: insulating public buildings (schools, hospitals, town halls) and co-financing programmes for households, with priority for the vulnerable.
  2. Local energy: solar panels on public buildings; local energy communities in which citizens and the town hall produce and consume together.
  3. Energy security: diversifying suppliers and full interconnection with the European market — no single supplier must be able to blackmail the country.
  4. Clean water: treatment plants that function (not merely get built), protection of wells and rivers, real penalties for polluters.
  5. Waste: phased separate collection, communal platforms, and the elimination of unauthorised dumps, with public deadlines for each locality.
  6. Afforestation: forest belts protecting the fields, and green spaces in every locality.
  7. Climate adaptation: local plans for drought and flooding, retention basins, early warnings.

Deadlines: the energy audit of public buildings — 2027; the first energy communities — 2028; the plan for eliminating unauthorised dumps — 2027, executed by 2030.

Funding: the Energy Efficiency Fund, EU programmes and those of development partners (energy and environmental infrastructure), local budgets, ESCO-type mechanisms for public buildings.

Measurable result by 2031: the energy bills of public buildings reduced by at least a third in the localities covered by the programme; the share of domestic renewables rising every year, published; zero unauthorised dumps in “Bună Ziua” localities.

Youth, Culture, Sport and the Diaspora

The problem today. Some 135,000 young people aged 15–34 — about a quarter of their generation — neither study, nor work, nor follow any training (BNS data, second quarter of 2024): NEETs are the country’s most expensive social problem. The diaspora numbers, by international estimates, between some 864,000 and over a million citizens; its transfers — about a tenth of GDP — keep the economy afloat, but every year of inertia turns a temporary departure into a permanent one. The cultural homes and sports infrastructure of the villages are degrading in silence.

What we will do:

  1. From NEET to opportunity: local programmes of guidance, short training with employers and paid internships; every identified NEET young person receives a concrete offer — a job, a course or an internship.
  2. Youth centres in every district: learning, volunteering, entrepreneurship, creation — with a real programme, not just a building.
  3. Grassroots sport: pitches and halls repaired and opened free of charge for children; school and local competitions; support for the region’s athletes.
  4. Living culture: cultural homes with public monthly agendas, modernised libraries, folk ensembles and craftspeople supported; heritage restored and used (tourism, education), not merely inventoried.
  5. The diaspora as a partner: accessible consular services, a respected vote, “Come Home” programmes with concrete support (housing, recognition of experience, business grants), diaspora investment in local projects with public co-financing.
  6. Officially recognised volunteering, with real benefits for young people (scholarships, priority in programmes).

Deadlines: the NEET map and the first district programmes — 2027–2028; youth centres in all districts — by 2030; the “Come Home” programme — from 2028.

Funding: local and state budgets, EU funds for youth and culture, partner programmes for the diaspora, transparently regulated private sponsorship.

Measurable result by 2031: the NEET share reduced by at least a third in the districts covered by the programme; every district with a functioning youth centre; the number of families returned through the programme published annually.

Foreign Policy, European Integration and Security

The problem today. Moldova is an EU candidate country, with 67% of its exports already directed to the European market (2024) — integration is no longer a declared direction, but the reality of the economy. Alignment with the European acquis rose from 80% to 90% in a single year (2023–2024, European Commission data) — the pace must be maintained at local level, where standards are applied or lost. On security: the defence budget is about 0.6% of GDP (2025), with the official target of 1% by 2030. On the left bank of the Nistru, 71–83% of the region’s exports go to the EU — the economic argument for peaceful reintegration is stronger than any declaration.

What we will do:

  1. Practical European integration, at local level: town halls prepared to apply EU standards (procurement, environment, services) and to absorb European funds — with project teams and training for officials.
  2. Good neighbourliness and economic diplomacy: promoting Moldovan wine, agricultural products and services on foreign markets; partnerships between localities (twinning) with economic results, not just ceremonial ones.
  3. Credible defence within constitutional neutrality: we support raising the defence budget towards 1% of GDP by 2030, a professional army and a prepared civil protection service — neutrality is to be respected, but it does not mean helplessness.
  4. Border security and public order: community policing, modern equipment, published response times.
  5. Peaceful reintegration: confidence-building measures, equal services and rights for citizens on both banks, economic cooperation and joint infrastructure projects; no step that would endanger the peace.
  6. Information security: media education in schools, prompt and verifiable public communication at local level, combating disinformation without censorship.
  7. Emergency preparedness: local civil protection plans, shelters and stocks checked, annual exercises with the population.

Deadlines: EU funds absorption teams in every district — 2027; local civil protection plans verified — 2028; annual exercises — from 2028.

Funding: the state budget (defence and security), EU pre-accession and cross-border cooperation funds, partner programmes for civil protection.

Measurable result by 2031: every larger town hall with at least one European project implemented; the defence budget on its trajectory towards 1% of GDP; emergency plans tested annually in every district.

Sovereignty is not declared — it is built: through strong institutions, a healthy economy, and citizens who believe in their own country.

The First 100 Days

After the 2027 local elections, the “Bună Ziua” teams in every locality will begin with deeds, not celebrations:

  1. Full publication of the local budget, the contracts under way, and the town hall’s debts.
  2. A public audit of procurement over the last two years.
  3. A public four-year plan for roads, water and lighting, with deadlines and costs.
  4. An inventory of public buildings and of the urgent repair needs (schools, medical points, kindergartens), together with their energy audit.
  5. A programme of weekly audience hours with the mayor and a quarterly report to the community.
  6. The launch of the single window for permits and certificates, with published maximum deadlines.
  7. Identification of the first external funding projects (the EU and partners) for every locality, and the appointment of a project officer.

That is how a good day begins: with the truth on the table, and work started from the very first morning.