CMC likely to start work after two-month break

The Chisinau Municipal Council (CMC) could resume work after it has been inactive for over two months. The Christian-Democratic councilor Ion Gabura has told Info-Prim Neo that on the suggestion of the Mayor General Dorin Chirtoaca, three PPCD councilors – he, Anatol Rurac and Mihai Adauge – decided to help overcome the crisis in the CMC and vote on important decisions for the municipality together with the Liberal-Democratic factions. Ion Gabura said that thousands of decisions accumulated during the two-month break. These decisions are to be put to the vote and approved. Otherwise, the activity of some of the municipal services would be blocked. A very important decision of these concerns the raising of a loan from the EBRD for SA Apa-Canal Chisinau. Gabura denied forming a broad alliance with the Liberal-Democratic parties, saying that the political aspect was excluded in this issue as the councilors of the PPCD faction want only to unblock the work of the CMC and solve the problems faced by the municipality. Asked what the PPCD’s position on the decision of the three councilors is, Gabura said: “They said things and will say yet, but we also have our opinion. No problem will be solved if we obey political orders.” The CMC’s meeting opened on June 11 was postponed 12 times. So far, the PPCD councilors voted mostly as the Communist councilors.