Parents of children attending kindergarten 5 from capital ask President not to allow demolishing building

A group of parents whose children attend kindergarten 5 on Bogdan Voievod str., in Rascani district, ask President Vladimir Voronin to intervene not to allow demolishing the building. Its owner – the candy-maker Bucuria – plans to building a dwelling block instead, Info-Prim Neo reports. The parents are concerned with the authorities allowing to privatize such an object, as the state hardly manages to supply sufficient places in kindergartens. “We know the law allows to sell enterprises, but not kindergartens, and we cannot understand why the state allows this to happen,” the signatories write. According to them, as the Chisinau kindergartens are overcrowded, and the number of children is rising, closing this 300-place kindergarten is simply inadmissible. Moreover, kindergarten 5 has over 50 qualified personnel likely to lose their jobs. The parents say no law could justify “abusive interests” touching upon the right to education. The President is also asked to ease transmitting the kindergarten under the subordination of the Education Direction of Rascani district. Also vice mayor of Chisinau Mihai Furtuna told the City Hall about the plans to demolish the kindergarten on July 7. The kindergarten belonged to the state when the company Bucuria was run by the state, but as the latter one was turned into a joint stock company, the kindergarten was transformed into assets of the company. On June 20 and July 3, Bucuria officially asked for the children to be evacuated, for the necessary urbanism certificate to demolish the kindergarten and for the permission to blueprint the dwelling block. The City Hall proposed instead a number of unused buildings with the same area, but the company rejected them. The candy-maker Bucuria managed to obtain a court writ obliging the City Hall to pay for renting the kindergarten in June 2007. The City Hall has not paid for the rent an amount of 2.164 million lei, because of scarcity of means. As a result its bank accounts were sequestered and the City Hall sued the decision.