CMC president accused of restricting transparency of local administration

The president of the Chisinau Municipal Council (CMC) is accused of making abuses by involving police to restrict the transparency in the local public administration. In the CMC's sitting of July 10, Eduard Musuc has rejected the accusations and has said he acts in accordance with the law to insure the order in the CMC's work, Info-Prim Neo reports. A number of municipal councilors are indignant they had to answer questions by two police “one dressed in a colonel's uniform and the other -- in civil clothes” in order to enter the sitting hall. Liberal councilor Ion Cebanu has addressed an interpellation to CMC president Eduard Musuc, as he wants to learn “who ordered the police and who are the colonels?” Moldova Noastra Alliance (AMN) councilor Oleg Cernei has called as abnormal the situation when there are many people in uniforms in the hall, including the deputy of the commissar of a Chisinau district, as well as unknown people filming, claiming they are from the Intelligence Service. He has said he, who instructed the law-enforcers to do so, has committed an abuse and attempts to the spirit of transparency and openness traditionally characteristic to the capital's local administration. Liberal Gheorghe Brega says the authors of the movement restrictions within the CMC's quarters “are afraid of the people.” Eduard Musuc has rejected the blames, stating he asked the State Guards (police) to intervene and acted in strict conformity with the law and the president's powers, stipulated in the CMC's regulation. He says those acts oblige him to insure the order in the Council's work, including not to admit armed people in the hall. According to him, such people were on the floor at one of the previous sittings, who aggressed both councilors and citizens, and later they were arrested. Musuc has been backed up by Ravnopravie Councilor Valeri Climenco, who has said he personally comes for the sittings unarmed, after it was banned in the Regulation. Although, Climenco says, «in this country, every normal man should go armed to protect himself». Eduard Musuc has ignored repeated demands of councilors to provide evidence not only words as to the presence of armed people in the room, but he neither repeated his previous statement on the alleged arrests of those people. Some councilors have shown concern with “the police's activism”, as until recently they abandoned the protection of the local administration, invoking more serious problems.