ECHR demands Moldovan Government modify legislation on social dwellings

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) demanded that the Government of Moldova amend the legislation on the provision of social dwellings to needy groups. The Court examined the complaints filed by prosecutors, policemen and judges and reached the conclusion that the executive flagrantly violated its obligation to provide social apartments, illegally shifting this obligation onto the local public administration without offering financial coverage, the Mayor of Chisinau Dorin Chirtoaca told a news conference on Wednesday, quoted by Info-Prim Neo. The local authorities and the civil society have informed the Communist government about the given problem during many years, the mayor said. The applicants asked that they be provided with dwellings by the local authorities that did not yet have money to satisfy their demands even if the court obliged them to. Therefore, the applicants appealed to the ECHR. “The people that serve the state and who the Communist government counted on when pressing the society were totally ignored by the Communists, who showed there hypocrisy this way,” Dorin Chirtoaca said. As the Chisinau City Hall cannot implement the court decisions to provide social dwellings, its accounts have been blocked for many months. The social apartments intended for disfavored groups from the block located on Liviu Deleanu St were sequestrated. The mayor said that the Chisinau administration is in favor of offering social dwellings to budget-paid employees, invalids, families with many children, orphans from children’s homes who come of age. “But the proposals submitted by the City Hall stumbled over the wall erected by the councilors of the PCRM and PPCD in the Chisinau Municipal Council,” he said. The Government was given a year to modify the legislation on social dwellings.