The Government, the Public Property Agency and the Association “Avia Invest” will be summoned to court to provide information about the legality of initiating a public-private partnership for conceding the Chisinau International Airport and the method of conceding the company’s assets. The lawsuit was filed by seven Liberal reforming MPs to the Buiucani Court on October 24.
In a news conference at IPN, lawyer Teodor Carnat, who represents the seven Liberal reformers in court, said the plaintiffs asked nullifying the Government’s decision to establish a public-private partnership for conceding the Chisinau International Airport and the executive’s May 30 decision to concede the airport’s assets.
Teodor Carnat said the MPs filed the lawsuit following the October 8 decision of the Constitutional Court by which the examination of the administrative documents concerning the concession of the airport was stopped. The Court ruled that it is within the competence of the common courts of law to examine such documents. Thus, the lawmakers filed a suit to a common court.
“As a lawyer, I have more reasons to question the legality of the Government’s decision concerning the concession of the airport. The first example is the decision on the public-private partnership made by former Prime Minister Vlad Filat on June 19, 2012. It was established that no official meeting of the Government with such a subject in the agenda took place on that date,” stated the lawyer.
He also said that a number of laws were violated in the process of conceding the assets of the Chisinau International Airport, including the Law on the Government’s Normative Documents and the Law on Transparency in Decision- Making, as the draft concession agreement wasn’t made public, while the contest held by the Public Property Agency was closed. This is a violation of the provisions of the Constitution. Another violation is the fact that the dismissed Government adopted the decision on May 30 even if it didn’t have the power to.
The lawyer stated there was violated the people’s right to know information of public interest, especially because the concession of the airport is to the detriment of the national interest. What is more serious is that the Government broke its own regulations that stipulate that the decision-making process must be transparent.
