Chisinau Council meeting ends briefly after walk-out

None of the fifty items on the Chisinau City Council's agenda got to be discussed on Friday after the Liberal and Liberal-Democrat councilors walked out in protest at an insistent proposal by the Communist and Socialist members, Info-Prim Neo reports. In particular, the Communists and Socialists insisted that the Council imposed a ban on a march calling for unification with Romania on Sunday and adopted a formal request to Parliament to consider Moldova's accession to the Russia-Belarus-Kazakhstan Customs Union. Liberal Oleg Cernei stated that he has never seen such a “disaster” in a Council meeting in all his three councilor terms. Mayor Dorin Chirtoaca noted that the City Council has been unable to adopt a single decision for four months now and if things continue the same way, the Council will face dissolution. After the walk-out, only 23 Communist councilors and one Socialist were left in the assembly hall, leading to the meeting's closure for a lack of quorum.