Dismissals will continue in 2013, Dorin Chirtoaca

Mayor of Chisinau Dorin Chirtoaca said that besides people with a different mentality in the administration, they also need higher pays that will prevent the people from taking bribe. In an Info-Prim Neo interview of the series “Year 2012 in Moldova’s and Moldovans’ life”, which was {published on December 19}, the mayor said that a number of functionaries have been discharged and others will continue to be dismissed. The structure of the City Hall’s subdivisions will be modified. “I think we will manage to reduce a series of posts and get rid of functionaries suspected of illegalities. It is evident that corruption embraced the local administration, the central administration, and the courts. “Besides people with a different mentality in the administration, we also need pays in line with everyone’s responsibility. Until the salaries are of 1,000-3,000 lei at a time when the persons manage millions or even billions of lei, there will be persons who can be corrupted. The change can happen through generations and by establishing administrations with traditions,” said Dorin Chirtoaca. According to the mayor, the corrupt functionaries in evident cases are only removed from the system, not yet imprisoned. The servant who was caught with €10,000 bribe that he took to influence a trial continues to move freely through Chisinau. “I even heard that he went to court and asked damages from the City Hall. This is strange. It is an example for the other corrupt persons, who see that there is no appropriate punishment for corruption. The fight will continue for a long period, even after us. But we must at least reach a more acceptable level,” stated Dorin Chirtoaca. The Info-Prim Neo interviews of the series “Year 2012 in Moldova’s and Moldovans’ life” that were launched on December 6 were opened by Prime Minister Vlad Filat. Afterward, their opinions about the performance of the passing year were stated by the Communist leader Vladimir Voronin, OSCE Mission Head Jennifer Brush, Minister of Economy Valeriu Lazar, and Minister of Justice Oleg Efrim. The next interviews will be with the expert of the Association for Participatory Democracy ADEPT Corneliu Gurin, director of the National Anticorruption Center Viorel Chetraru, head of the Moldovan communiqué in Quebec, Canada, Ala Mindicanu, Minister of Agriculture and Food Industry Vasile Bumacov, and singer Cristofor Aldea Teodorovici.