Court of Appeals rules September 29 meeting of Chisinau Council was illegal
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The Chisinau Court of Appeals ruled in favor of mayor of Chisinau and the Local Administrative Control Division, declaring the September 29, 2011 meeting of the Chisinau Municipal Council (CMC), when the Communist faction decided to withdraw three seats of councilor, as illegal, Info-Prim Neo reports.
Judge Gheorghe Cretul, vice president of the Chisinau Court of Appeals, who tried this case, has told Info-Prim Neo that the CMS’s meeting of September 29 did not meet the legal provisions.
Contacted by Info-Prim Neo, the head of the Communist faction on the CMC Boris Golovin said they expected that the court will annul the Council’s decision of September 29 given that this trial was postponed for over five months. “The ruling alliance and the judges, mainly judge Cretu, showed who they really are,” he stated.
Boris Golovin also said that the procedure for withdrawing the seats of councilor will start from the very beginning. In the near future, the faction will propose that the issue be included in the agenda of one of the Council’s meetings.
On September 29, the Communist councilors held a meeting of the CMC in the absence of the councilors of the ruling alliance and the Council’s secretary. They decided to withdraw the seats of three members of the Communist faction based on their applications and to give them to the next substitute candidates on the PCRM’s list. The mayor said then that the meeting was illegal as the acting secretary of the CMC is elected by 26 votes, while Igor Dodon and Zinaida Greceanyi could not vote as they renounced their seats. In October, the City Hall filed a lawsuit.
