The problems remained unsolved for a year and a half and now they are like a snowstorm that gets strength. Info-Prim Neo interview with the member of the PCRM faction in the Chisinau Council, Alexandru Roman

[ - Last year, the Chisinau Municipal Council (CMC) had two decisional majorities. Would you speak about their efficiency?] - Comparatively, the second half of 2008 was more productive as the legislative and executive authorities of the Chisinau municipality started to cooperate. The first half of last year saw both positive and negative developments. We created then the working bodies of the CMC, the commissions. After October 2007, Mihai Ghimpu was elected as president of the CMC and the Liberal Party started to create a majority in the Council. A negative aspect is the fact that two expert commissions had been merged into one commission that had a lot of members and wasn’t efficient. That period was positive because we were trying to return the things to normal. We personally asked the CMC president and the mayor general to work out a program of local government, but no such program was devised yet. The systemic activity leads to results. The anarchic activity, when you center on extreme directions, leads to disaster. The situation will improve only when we take the necessary steps. In the second half of 2008, we started to more seriously analyze the problems. We had examined more subjects and adopted more decisions that during the whole 2007. As regards the quality of the decisions made, of course there are many altercations during the Council’s meetings. Unhappily, the meetings are boycotted by the factions of the PL, AMN and other parties. [ - How did the relations between the CMC and the Mayor General develop last year and what effects did they have on the Chisinau residents?] - The Mayor General of Chisinau Dorin Chirtoaca practically ignored the work of the Council for half a year and was absent from 99% of the CMC meetings. He has never sat at his place of Mayor General, near the president of the Council and the deputy mayors that are subordinate to him. Even if he came, he only made political statements from the rostrum and did not address the issues faced by the municipality. [ - What can your faction and the Council do together to improve the situation in Chisinau in 2009?] - We can approve a real heating tariff of 540 lei or 560 lei per gigacalorie and propose it to the partners that signed the Memorandum on November 11 – the City Hall, Termocom and Moldovagaz. At the same time, we must also have a realistic administration plan that would have economic, social and cultural divisions because the problems in the municipality remained unsolved for a year and a half and now they are like a snowstorm that gets strength.