Two Chisinau councilors resign
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Two Chisinau councilors Tuesday tendered their resignation as they decided to become MPs. Svetlana Popa and Eduard Musuc entered the Parliament on the Communist ticket, Info-Prim Neo reports.
At Tuesday's meeting of the Chisinau Municipal Council (CMC), Svetlana Popa said that the Communist faction, of which she was a member during five years, did good work both when “in power” and when in the opposition. “While the Communists Party ruled the country, we managed to reconstruct the Memorial Complex “Eternity”, to construct and repair roads and trolleybus lines. I leave, but there remains a well-prepared faction, my party colleagues,” Popa said.
The chair of the meeting, councilor Mihai Severovan expressed his hope that the two former councilors, who know very well the problems faced by Chisinau, will serve the interests of the Chisinau residents in the Parliament as well.
Mayor General Dorin Chirtoaca thanked Svetlana Popa for effective cooperation in certain situations, but stressed that the bills for the works to reconstruct “Eternity”, repair the roads and build trolleybus lines, carried out while Vasile Ursu held the mayoralty on an interim basis, were paid by the present Chisinau administration. “You spent money that you did not have,” he said.
The councilor of the Moldova Noastra Alliance Oleg Cernei, said that the Liberal-Democrats will not delay approving the withdrawal of the permits from the two councilors as the Communist and Christian-Democratic councilors did after the April 5 elections.
The agenda of the CMC meeting included the issue of the rise in water charges and public transport fares.
The Communist councilor Valery Pavlov insisted that they should examine the items that remained from the previous meeting, while Valery Klimenko, of the Social-Political Movement “Ravnopravie”, demanded that the meeting be closed as its agenda did not include the issues that were not discussed at the previous sitting.
Pavlov proposed that the issue of the rise in water charges be removed from the agenda, but his proposal was rejected.
The four councilors of the Christian-Democratic faction have voted or abstained from voting together with the Liberal-Democratic councilors. Though she resigned, Svetlana Popa voted together with the Communist faction, but the Government's representative Ghennady Glusheko did not warn that the vote was illegal.
