Constructions Ministry does not want authorization from Chisinau city hall

The Ministry for Constructions and Territorial Development withdrew its request submitted to the Chisinau city hall to be issued an authorization to repair the buildings of the Parliament and Presidency, which were devastated in the April 7 revolt. Deputy mayor Nistor Grozavu stated on June 25 “the ministry has the right to issue construction authorizations to itself, in case it's a matter of national-importance buildings, financed from the state budget,” Info-Prim Neo reports. “This is probably what it is going to do, if it withdrew its application,” Grozavu specified. He says, in case of re-building entities fully financed from the state or municipal budgets, the authorizations shall be approved by the Chisinau Council's chairman, or session chairman. Earlier, Chisinau mayor Dorin Chirtoaca said the city hall would not issue the authorization requested by the ministry, since it would mean “the city hall would confirm the exaggerated costs of the works.” At Thursday's sitting of the Chisinau's Council, Nistor Grozavu was to brief the councilors on the authorization to re-build the Parliament's headquarters, but later he withdrew the item from the order of the day. After a recent trip to Moscow, acting president Vladimir Voronin has said Russia grants Moldova $20 million to rebuild the parliament's building. The Government assesses the reparation of the two buildings at at half a billion lei.