The civil association Moldova Mea (“My Moldova”) has threatened the Mayor General of Chisinau Municipality with the initiation of a referendum on his future in office, if he doesn’t take concrete steps to solve until June, one year after he took office, some burning issues in the city, like unauthorised constructions, public utilities, and public transport. Fiodor Ghelici, the chairman of the association, told a news conference on Monday, February 11, he was enraged by the news that the Chisinau City Council (CMC) had fixed pays of 400 lei for each councillor per meeting. He alleged many of the councillors run their own businesses and should be ashamed of getting so much money for worthless shows that we have seen over the past year. “This is no City Hall, but a limited liability company, because the council does nothing, and no one knows who guides whom: is it the uncle by the nephew or the nephew by the uncle?”, Ghelici asked rhetorically. He said the Moldova Mea Association had hoped that a new mayor would come to better the wrongs done by his predecessors, yet he turned out to be a disappointment, after only a few days of being in office, he spent 68,000 lei on furniture for his backroom at the City Hall. In this regard, Ghelici said that the Moldova Mea filed a petition to the CMC asking it to create an audit commission for the Mayor’s Office to verify public expenditure. Fiodor Ghelici noted that he had repeatedly asked the Mayor’s assistance in problems that he has been trying to solve as the chairman of a non-governmental organisation, but his requests apparently fell on deaf ears. We arrived at the conclusion that we don’t need a politician or a priest at the City Hall, but a mayor that would understand what city management really is, Fiodor Ghelici added. According to Article 177 of the Electoral Code of Moldova, a referendum to revoke a mayor may be initiated when a mayor does not act in the interests of the local community, does not exercise his/her powers of local elected officer adequately and in accordance with current laws or breaches moral and ethical norms, facts which need to be confirmed in the established manner.