The mayor of Chisinau Ion Ceban said deputy mayor Victor Chironda should resign or he will personally initiate the procedure for dismissing him. The statement was made after the deputy mayor recently made accusations against the mayor and his mates, saying he was verbally abused and intimated when he actually tries to name things and to stop the illegalities, IPN reports.
Mayor Ceban told a news conference that the only thing deputy mayor Chironda can reproach him for is that he made him work, but the results of the work done by this are insignificant. The deputy mayor has many overdue projects, including the practical side related to parking places in Chisinau, where Victor Chironda hasn’t become involved at all. Also, he was to formulate solutions over street trading in March, but didn’t do it and deputy mayor Inga Ionesii took over this area in June. He also didn’t do anything in such areas as street repair, quality of works, rehabilitation of parks and green areas.
The mayor noted he was the one who offered Victor Chironda to take up as deputy mayor. “I didn’t come with a reaction so far as I thought that the man has particular frustrations and would ultimately start work. I didn’t attack him and didn’t comment on his statements. What he does now means making a victim of himself. He forgot that not the citizens elected him. I invited him to hold this post even if many told me that he can attack me from behind. He does this because he knew he has leave and that this is inevitable. Now he does his best to rehabilitate himself and to have a future career,” stated Ion Ceban.
Shortly after the news conference, Victor Chironda reacted through Facebook, saying that what Ion Ceban said is not true. “I will clarify each of the invoked points and will present a progress report. I do not have what to hide. One thing is clear – mister mayor tries to shift emphases from the illegalities committed by the chief architect Svetlana Dogotaru and her mates in the process of authorizing the demolition of Național Hotel onto me and my resignation It’s now clear that Ion Ceban is interested in the demolition of this building and covers with his own image an illegality that is intensely promoted by those who have influence on me,” he wrote. Victor Chironda noted that by withdrawing his power to sign permissive documents, the mayor confirms that he is inconvenient namely because he opposes his interests and the interests of his mates from the building sector. Earlier, Victor Chironda said the scandal featuring him is aimed at diverting public attention away from the issuing of the authorization to demolish Naţional Hotel.
