Materials for building houses for flood victims are stolen and sold, PCRM

The workers who erect houses in the areas affected by floods are not paid salaries and the building materials used are stolen and sold while the administration is promoting its image in the election campaign using people’s sufferings, the leader of the Communists Party Vladimir Voronin said, quoted by Info-Prim Neo. In a news conference on October 27, Voronin said that when the floods started people dressed in T-shirts with parties’ symbols went to the hit areas and promised they will build houses for the victims. A number of 145 of the 563 houses were to be erected in Cotul Morii village by October 25. But there were constructed only 50 houses and only three of them are ready. In Nemteni, only 76 of the planned 115 houses have been built. Only 20 of them have been roofed over. The other 39 houses have not been yet started. Only one house of the 28 projected was erected in Obileni village, Vladimir Voronin said. Vladimir Voronin stressed that the journalistic investigations of Omega news agency provide sufficient reasons for the governing alliance to abandon its political and public activity during several years. In a news conference on October 26, the agency’s director and a candidate for the PCRM Alexandr Petkov presented a nine-minute film, where people say the levee in Nemteni was burst by Romanians with the Moldovan authorities’ consent in order to protect Galati town. As a result, four villages in Hancesti district had been flooded. The Government of Moldova and the Embassy of Romania in Chisinau denied the accusations. In a communiqué issued on October 26, the Government says that according to the timetable agreed by the Construction Ministry with building companies, the first 15 houses for flood victims in Cotul Morii, Nemteni and Obileni will be put in commission on November 5, the next 24 – on November 10, 82 – on November 15, 91 – on November 20, 329 – on November 25, 116 – on November 30. Another 49 houses will be finished by December 5. About 400 houses have been erected and roofed so far.