The leader of the Humanist faction in the Chisinau Municipal Council (CMC), Oleg Oniscenco, accuses the private passenger carriers of working on expired contracts. The private transporters and Public Transport Direction reject his claims. Oleg Oniscenco stated he asked for a new regulation for the private carriers, at the last sitting of the CMC. The president of the Private Transporters Association, Ion Mamaliga, has told Info-Prim Neo “the regulation has nothing to do with the drivers' contracts.” “Concluding contracts for a limited period is stipulated in the old regulation, but we work on the basis of the new regulation, approved by the Cabinet a year ago, and it does not envisage that,” Mamaliga said. He adds no new tender is needed for route operators, because it would mean “disturbing the things in good from their good order and sacking a whole collective, transfers from one company to another, and it's complicated.” The CMC has not yet adapted its regulation to the Government's one. “We are working on the basis of an old regulation nobody canceled,” said the president of the Private Transporters Association. According to Mamaliga, although there is a legal ground for the transporters to work, this does not mean the CMC does not have to adopt a new regulation . The Public Transport Direction chief, Veaceslav Tarna, says the private transporters work legally, since their contracts have been prolonged till the adoption of the new regulation. He says he does not know why the councilors have not adopted the new act till now, a year after the Government adopted its regulation.