Mayor of Chisinau Dorin Chrtoaca, who is under No. 2 on the Liberal Party’s list of candidates for MP, said that he will renounce the mayoralty only if he is offered the post of Prime Minister. He made such statements in a program on RTR Moldova channel, IPN reports.

The mayor, who vacated his seat for the period of the election campaign on November 10, reiterated that he will renounce the seat of MP and will return to the Chisinau City Hall. As to the premiership, though he is convinced that the PL will enter Parliament, he is not sure that the party will have a sufficient number of seats to propose him for this post.

Dorin Chirtoaca said he will run for the third term as mayor and is optimistic that he will win the future local elections. “Polls show the people see me more as a manager of the local affairs. I will continue following this path,” he stated.

Among his accomplishments as mayor of Chisinau, Dorin Chirtoaca mentioned the purchase of new trolleybuses, the repair of streets and the implementation of new technologies at the wastewater treatment station. He named also his minuses, including waste recycling and the corruption existing at the City Hall. “It’s hard to remove bureaucracy. As to corruption at the City Hall, I personally became involved in some of the cases, but there is yet no court decision over the more than ten cases of corruption involving local functionaries. Anyway, the phenomenon persists and we have yet a lot of work to do in this respect,” he stated.