The candidates for mayor of Chisinau of the Party “Platform Dignity and Truth” Andrei Nastase and of the Party of Socialists Ion Ceban took part in the last televised debate on ProTV Chisinau channel. The candidates provided arguments why they should be chosen mayors, IPN reports.

Andrei Nastase said it is not so easy to solve the problem of parking places in Chisinau. First of all, areas should be identified for building parking lots, mainly at the entrance to the city so that the persons who come to Chisinau could leave their cars and travel by public transport. As to the roads, the sum of 342 million lei allocated for repairing these is too small and it is thus important to attract funds, including Romanian ones.

The candidate noted he designed a general plan concerning transport in the municipality of Chisinau. This envisions the renovation of stations so that they all look alike. “We intend to outfit the public transport stations with electronic broads so that the people know when the trolleybus, bus or another unit of transport comes,” he stated.

For his part, Ion Ceban said he has a project to build parking places that was estimated at 1 billion lei. “This project will be implemented under a public-private partnership or with municipal loans that would enable to build underground and multistory garages. At the entrances to the city, we now need parking lots and there are areas that can be leased out for erecting parking lots with 300 to 500 places on them,” he stated, adding that the building works could start this year already.

As regard municipal investments, Ion Ceban said the budgetary lines were set, but any negotiations last and more resources than those that were budgeted for roads cannot be allotted until the start of 2019.

In another development, referring to the National Agency for Energy Regulation’s decision to restore the previous fuel price ceilings, Ion Ceban said this institution is politicized. “Someone orders to raise prices and then to decrease them and this is not good,” he stated. Andrei Nastase noted a large-scale march is to be mounted on June 2 against the rise in fuel prices and this thing scared the national regulator. “The people’s will ultimately frightens the government and our duty is to exert social pressure so as to stop them from stealing billions and from transforming the country into a Russian money laundering machine,” he stated.

The mayoral runoffs in Chisinau municipality will take place on June 3.