Fiodor Ghelici, chairman of the Public Association “Moldova Mea”, considers the clash in the May 14 meeting of the Chisinau Municipal Council (CMC) was nothing else but a political show, while Renato Usatyi, Ion Ceban and others who caused the altercation only strengthened the authority of mayor Dorin Chirtoaca, who is also an election contender. In a news conference at IPN on May 18, Fiodor Ghelici said it became a tradition for the voters in the election campaign to witness all kinds of political farces staged by politicians with the aim of throwing dirt at each other, but who ultimately form coalitions after the elections.
Fiodor Ghelici said it happened so in the case of Renato Usatyi and the Socialist leader Igor Dodon. When the head of state was voted in, Usatyi accused Dodon of taking money from Vlad Filat for leaving the Party of Communists and for voting for Nicolae Timofti. Now Usatyi appears near the Socialists. Moreover, when he was excluded from the race, Usatyi called on the people to vote for the Party of Socialists.
As to the accusations that draft decisions to sell plots of land that would have caused considerable damage to the municipality were to be adopted at that meeting of the CMC, Fiodor Ghelici said that if the Socialists or other politicians possess such kind of information, they could have intervened when those issues were put up for discussion, without blocking the work of the councilors or even treating the mayor rudely at a time when this has an executive role and cannot take decisions as regards that land.
The head of “Moldova Mea” also said that the politicians and MPs who came to the meeting of the CMC wanted only to make political PR. Their acts showed lack of respect for the majority of the people who voted for Dorin Chirtoaca. The agenda of the May 14 meeting included dozens of matters concerning the extension of leases for particular areas and privatization of some plots, and the honest people to which those decisions referred cannot work now because the contracts weren’t extended given that the meeting was thwarted.
Ghelici noted that the politicians make effort to attract the voters by any method and the voters must thus analyze very attentively what each candidate apart can offer them and make a conscious choice.
The May 14 meeting of the CMC was interrupted when Socialist MPs Grigore Novac and Ion Ceban, politician Renato Usatyi and activist Vitalie Voznoi entered the meeting hall and caused a clash. The mayor called the police and Voznoi was escorted to the police station. The councilors were requested to make statements concerning those events to the police.
