“We should not forget that the Municipal Council until 2006 did well without a chairman. It is not a problem,” Speaker and the leader of the Democratic Party Marian Lupu said, commenting on the Parliament’s decision to abolish the post of permanent chairman of the Chisinau Council (CMC), Info-Prim Neo reports. Marian Lupu said that this decision was taken in the meetings of the Council of the Alliance for European Integration. “Everyone in the alliance was in favor. We do not have one position inside the government coalition and another one in Parliament,” said Marian Lupu. The leader of the Liberal Party Mihai Ghimpu said the decision should not be interpreted as a reaction to the fact that the PCRM has 26 seats of councilor on the CMC. “We put forward this proposal a year ago, but did not have the support of the colleagues from the alliance,” said Mihai Ghimpu. The head of the Liberal-Democratic parliamentary group Valeriu Strelet said the decision to remove the post of CMC chairman is rational. “We backed this bill in both of the readings. All the councilors have equal status, while the attempt to appoint a chairman on a permanent basis wasn’t logical,” said Valeriu Strelet. Mayor General of Chisinau municipality Dorin Chirtoaca said the CMC for 20 years had worked with a meeting chairman and there were achieved results. “In 2008- 2009, the Municipal Council became the second City Hall, misused its authority and broke the law. I don’t think that somebody wants this scenario to be repeated. We raised this problem after 2009, after the July elections, when the government was changed. It is almost two years since then,” he stated. Contacted by Info-Prim Neo, Communist MP Sergiu Sarbu said the Parliament’s decision did not surprise him. “It is clear that it is a purely political decision aimed at preventing the PCRM from holding an important post. If the PCRM won the mayoral elections, the current administration could eliminate even the post of mayor general so as to hinder the Communists from coming to power. If a Communist candidate won the presidential elections, they might annul the post of head of state as well,” Sergiu Sarbu said, adding the government is able to liquidate the state Moldova in order not to lose power. The MPs of the ruling alliance adopted the bill on the abolition on the permanent office of chairman of the Chisinau Council in the July 7 sitting.