Members of the Political Bloc of Communists and Socialists (BCS) mounted a protest in front of the Government Building to show their dissatisfaction with the authorities’ decision to sell the site of the former Republican Stadium in Chisinau to the United State for construction of a New Embassy Compound, IPN reports.
According to representatives of the BCS, the Public Property Agency drafted the decision on the approval of the Memorandum of Understanding between the Government of the Republic of Moldova and the United States for the purchase of the site for construction of a New Embassy Compound.
“We are witness to the sale of the country by pieces,” MP Grigore Novac said in the protest. “The practices started by Plahotniuc are continued by Maia Sandu. They have used political pressure, the Constitutional Court, the foreign factor. We cannot be sure now that we will have a park with a social purpose or a sports complex in that place. All the legal norms have been violated. This lot was underestimated and its price and stake are kept secret. Whom did they ask when they decided to sell this stadium? No one. We will make all the legal approaches to restore this stadium to the citizens.”
Deputy Parliament Speaker Vlad Batrîncea, Socialist MP, said President Maia Sandu met with the U.S. ambassador and the next day the Government took a decision concerning the Republican Stadium. But President Sandu didn’t build anything in Moldova. She only focused on the closure of schools and optimization of hospitals and mayor’s offices. A tender contest should be held in the case of public property so that the people know at what price this is sold.
According to him, the bill to sell the site of the former stadium to the United State was adopted by the regime of Vlad Plahotniuc in 2018. In 2020, Parliament, on the initiative of the Socialists, abrogated this law and the land was returned under public ownership. But Maia Sandu’s MPs went to the Constitutional Court and obtained the repeal of the law.
Also today, tens of cabs traveled around the Presidential Palace in protest to show their dissatisfaction with the rise in fuel prices.
