More than 120 houses in the northern town of Donduseni lost their roofs due to high winds and hail on Tuesday afternoon, with some houses also losing their ceilings. The storm affected over 300 hectares of crops in the same town. Donduseni mayor Ion Zloi told IPN that the affected people received slate in order to repair their roofs. The situation is worse in the case of at least four houses where the ceiling collapsed and the rain flowed inside. The situation is disastrous. “People worked their entire lives and now they are just staring at the damaged houses and think of what is there to do.” More than 50 localities in the southern districts of Moldova remained without electric power in the afternoon of July 3 following the high winds and torrential rain. In the municipality of Comrat, a number of kindergartens had to suspend work as the children could not be fed in the absence of electricity.
The visit paid by Maia Sandu to Bucharest creates a framework between the current authorities of the Republic of Moldova and Romania based on which the ongoing projects implemented during many years will be continued. According to journalist Vlad Țurcanu, no matter who is in power in Moldova, Romania cannot act in a different way than by offering support. “Romania will keep this interest as it is the state policy towards the Republic of Moldova that should not take into account the combinations in Chisinau and who is in power. This visit by Maia Sandu to Bucharest could probably remove these fears,” he stated.
Romania and Ukraine had different fears related to the change of power in the Republic of Moldova. While Ukraine feared the restoration of the relationship with the Russian Federation at its borders, a part of the decision makers in Bucharest still supported the representatives of the former government. “Things for Romania were fully different as Romania didn’t expect such a turn and the reaching of such an agreement between two extremes, the right and the left, in Chisinau. What neither Romania nor Ukraine understood is that there is a much bigger problem in Moldova and this is called mafiotization of the state,” said journalist Ion Terguță.
“The European Union is aware of the challenges that the Moldovan Government could face. Putting the government program into practice will be a difficult task, but the Republic of Moldova can count on the support of the European Union, both politically, and probably now more importantly, financially”, stated the EU’s Enlargement Commissioner Johannes Hahn. “I was pleased to see in the past weeks this strong commitment that Ms. Sandu’s Government has shown to pursue decisively the reform agenda based on the Association Agreement,” said the European Commissioner, adding that the Association Council will assemble at the beginning of autumn to effectively relaunch cooperation.
Serious changes will occur in the Autonomous Territorial Unit of Gagauzia, particularly in its legislative body, stated reelected Bashkan Irina Vlah. She noted it should be clear who the institutions work for – the people or a party. She said she has concrete proposals for the Government and for Parliament and intends to initiate discussions on the theme. “We really understand the problematic issues existing between the executive committee of Gagauzia and the Government of the Republic of Moldova and are ready to help Moldova’s new executive to address these problems so that the mistakes committed by the predecessors are avoided. We want to be partners,” stated Irina Vlah.
Eduard Harunjen told the press that the Second Kroll Report was received by the former chief of the Anticorruption Prosecutor’s Office Viorel Morari from the National Bank governor. “This report contains a very important clause about which the state authorities were informed and they were issued with a copy of this clause. On the initiative of prosecutors, the National Bank of Moldova initiated the procedure for reviewing the contract clauses with Kroll. We are now waiting for the official position of this entity. The report could be then transmitted to the Supreme Security Council, which requested it, and to the parliamentary commission. Until now we received two requests for being provided with the report,” stated the porseutor general.
Nicu Popescu, Minister of Foreign Affairs and European Integration, admitted that referring to the Transnistrian conflict as a “civil war” in remarks during Monday’s visit to Bucharest was a “regrettable gaffe”. “Yesterday in Bucharest I used an unfortunate turn of phrase when speaking about the Transnistrian conflict. The use of that phrasing was a gaffe that I regret and I hope we can all overcome this moment of misunderstanding in my public discourse”, Popescu posted on his FB account.
“He will soon answer this himslef”, replied MP Denis Ulanov when asked by reporters about the location of his party leader Ilan Shor. “Our group does not only represent seven MPs, but more than 60,000 party members, and more than 120,000 voters – people who trusted us and continue to trust us, and who are ready to defend us, as well as their rights and their future,” stated Denis Ulanov.
Adriana Bețișor has given up the post of Anticorruption Prosecutor which she took over as a caretaker after the resignation of Viorel Morari. Prosecutor General Eduard Harunjen said the new acting Anticorruption Prosecutor is Eduard Varzari, who has been Deputy AP for several years now.
The parliamentary commission on culture, education, research, youth, sport and the media rejected the report for 2018 presented by the Audiovisual Council on July 3. The commission decided to constitute a working group that will check to see if the Council members meet the criteria for holding the posts.
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