Aliona Mandatii decided to leave the group of councilors of the Party “Dignity and Truth Platform” (PPPDA) on the Chisinau Municipal Council and to serve as unaffiliated. She made the announcement in the February 22 meeting of the Council. Aliona Mandatii said her mate Ala Tâșcu, who was absent from today’s meeting, also left the group, IPN reports.

The councilor said that she and her mate withdraw their vote in favor of the Council’s February 17 decision to sell a lot situated near the shopping center UNIC. She called on the executive to submit a decision to annul the given decision to the Municipal Council.

On February 17, the councilors of PPPDA and of the Party of Socialists on the Chisinau Municipal Council voted for the sale of a 1.29 ha lot located next to UNIC Store at the price of 2.7 million lei at a time when the market price of this is at least 40 million lei. Acting prosecutor general Dumitru Robu ordered to establish the legality of the given decision.