Valeriu Munteanu: Election campaign has started

The election campaign has started in Moldova by the will of Vlad Filat and Vladimir Voronin. Only the election day is to be set. Thus, the PLDM is not interested in forming a new government. In reality, they work on the early elections, the deputy chairman of the Liberal Party Valeriu Munteanu said in the program “Fabrika” on PublikaTV channel, IPN reports.

According to Valeriu Munteanu, the negotiation process hasn’t yet started and the first attempt to vote in the new Government will be made on May 30. “It will be a decorative list. Those candidates will not gain the necessary number of votes. I’m absolutely sure that the Constitutional Court will pass a correct and explicit judgment. My feeling is that Parliament should immediately start to elect the Speaker,” he stated.

Former deputy minister of justice Nicolae Esanu said that Moldova does not come closer to the target to which many citizens aspire because what is going on at present represents regression and a number of state institutions discredit themselves. “The Constitutional Court sees two Governments. We can witness a disaster. The problem is simple: a parliamentary majority is created or we will have early elections,” he said.

In the same connection, the former deputy minister stated that the problem of avoidance of early elections is a false one as Moldova is already in an election campaign and it is only the date of elections that is to be decided.



The reform of local public administration could require between 4.5 and 5 billion lei, depending on the number of town halls that will participate in the voluntary amalgamation process. The Government’s initial estimate, calculated for the scenario in which all town halls would adhere to the reform, was approximately 6.5 billion lei.

The Deputy Secretary General of the Government, Alexandru Iacub, stated in an interview for IPN that the funds are provided in the Growth Plan for the development of the administration and the implementation of the reform and will be approved along with the legislative package.

“Money is allocated when there is a predictability of budget execution. The moment we have the number of municipalities eligible for this incentive, then we allocate this amount and provide for it in the budget,” the official explained.

At present, the authorities are providing the first incentive for initiating the voluntary amalgamation process. Over 10 million lei have already been allocated to the town halls for this stage, and the number of requests is increasing.

For the first stimulus, the Government has allocated 170 million lei in this year’s budget. Part of the amount will be returned to the state budget through budget adjustment, as it was not fully utilized.

Disclaimer: This material was prepared by the IPN Press Agency, within the project “Local Public Administration Reform in Dialogue”, funded by the Ministry of Culture from the Media Subsidy Fund.


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Valeriu Munteanu: Election campaign has started

The election campaign has started in Moldova by the will of Vlad Filat and Vladimir Voronin. Only the election day is to be set. Thus, the PLDM is not interested in forming a new government. In reality, they work on the early elections, the deputy chairman of the Liberal Party Valeriu Munteanu said in the program “Fabrika” on PublikaTV channel, IPN reports.

According to Valeriu Munteanu, the negotiation process hasn’t yet started and the first attempt to vote in the new Government will be made on May 30. “It will be a decorative list. Those candidates will not gain the necessary number of votes. I’m absolutely sure that the Constitutional Court will pass a correct and explicit judgment. My feeling is that Parliament should immediately start to elect the Speaker,” he stated.

Former deputy minister of justice Nicolae Esanu said that Moldova does not come closer to the target to which many citizens aspire because what is going on at present represents regression and a number of state institutions discredit themselves. “The Constitutional Court sees two Governments. We can witness a disaster. The problem is simple: a parliamentary majority is created or we will have early elections,” he said.

In the same connection, the former deputy minister stated that the problem of avoidance of early elections is a false one as Moldova is already in an election campaign and it is only the date of elections that is to be decided.


The former president of the Savings Bank, Grigore Gacikevici, was sentenced to 13 years in prison in a case related to bank fraud. The case concerns the granting of loans in violation of banking regulations during the period 2005-2012. According to prosecutors, the damage caused to BEM amounts to almost three billion lei, reports IPN.

The sentence was pronounced by the Chisinau Court, Buiucani headquarters, in the presence of Gacikevici, brought into the courtroom under escort. According to the decision, he is to serve his sentence in a semi-closed type prison and will not be able to hold positions in the banking system for five years.

The prosecutors, who requested 15 years of imprisonment, argued that, during the period 2005-2012, the BEM management allegedly approved non-performing loans. Overvalued or insufficient assets would have been accepted as guarantees to cover the loans. Four individuals and 68 companies would have benefited from these loans.

The conviction comes a day after Gacikevici was arrested in another case, in which he is investigated for large-scale money laundering. According to law enforcement, during his tenure at the bank, he allegedly received illegal remuneration for facilitating the granting of loans, and the money was subsequently transferred abroad to conceal its origin.

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1 IANUARIE, 2025
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