On June 14, the citizens of Moldova will vote the new local administration. IPN News Agency set the goal to determine how the local public authorities coped during the current term that is coming to an end. Experts, opinion leaders and representatives of civil society from different settlements will assess the activity of the local authorities of the country’s districts and municipalities. IPN series: Glodeni district
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Glodeni district has 19 mayor’s offices for its 35 settlements. The total population is over 60,000.
Victor Scripnic, a member of the Glodeni-based Public Association “Center for Constancy and Training in Agriculture” (ACSA), said that owing to the struggle between parties, the local authorities managed things unsatisfactorily over the last four years. The promises made in the election campaign by the current mayor of Glodeni town remained unfulfilled. Neither the mayors of the other settlements delivered many of their promises. The electoral promises in the district were about 10% fulfilled. The administration most often invoked the lack of financial resources needed for implementing the projects promised earlier.
Not much has been done until now. The development projects were related only to the tourist route leading to the Reserve “Padurea Domneasca” because the current head of Glodeni district earlier held the post of director of the given natural reserve, stated Victor Scripnic
He noted that a broader tourist infrastructure project is needed given that Glodeni district has many natural monuments that are unique in Europe such as the rock Butesti, the open-air natural monument “One hundred mounds”, the lake of herons, century-old oak trees, etc. Thus, the infrastructure should be developed around these monuments so as to attract tourists. “I think it is the only way to develop the economy of the country and the district,” said Victor Scripnic.
He also said that water supply and sewerage systems are needed in most of the settlements. In Glodeni district there are mayor’s offices that achieved results during four years, such as those of Limbenii Noi and Hajdieni, where schools and nurseries were repaired, monuments of culture were built, etc.
Victor Scripnic is convinced that things at local level would go better if the local and district authorities set the economic activities, not the political ones as a priority. An efficient administration is that where the mayors and decision makers fielded by parties in elections remain outside the parties after they are named to posts so that they could work for the community’s benefit.
As regards the elections, Victor Scripnic said that besides bad roads, Moldova also has bad election campaigns. An election campaign ends and another one starts immediately. There should be one election campaign as a result of which to elect all the bodies: Parliament, the head of state, the local administration. Work should be done over the next four years and a new election campaign could be held afterward.
As to the expectations of the June 14 local elections, Victor Scripnic said the people want the pro-Europeans forces to join around the European integration idea as they promised and to do things so that all Moldova’s people live in appropriate conditions, as all the Europeans.
Alina Marin, IPN
