About 19,000 chickens died at a firm in the municipality of Comrat following the strong winds and heavy rainfall of July 3, IPN reports, with reference to Gagauzinfo. The high winds took away the roof and the water flooded the rooms of the farm. The incurred losses amount to about 100,000 lei if only the cost price of the chickens is taken into account. The company’s failed incomes exceed yet 600,000 lei.
Ion Dron, the president of the Center for Monitoring Public Authorities NGO and a practicing lawyer, says that the amendments proposed to the Prosecution Service Law are against the Constitution and that they will undermine the independence of prosecutors. The jurist called the amendments “form over substance”. “Not only the amendments will not be able to dismantle the old system, they will also consolidate political control over the prosecution service by people replacing (former PDM leader Vlad) Plahotniuc”. So, thinks Dron, the amendments indicate that the current government doesn’t really want change. “They just want to replace the person who can take over the system created by Vlad Plahotniuc and control it further, by putting in the Superior Council of Prosecutors a majority of political appointees.”
The Moldovan Parliament will assemble tomorrow to initiate the procedure for dismissing Prosecutor General Eduard Harunjen, announced President Igor Dodon. The president notes that for more than a month now Parliament’s leadership as well as members of civil society have been urging Eduard Harunjen to step down honorably.
Gheorge Ciobanu, a recently retired anti-corruption prosecutor, is requesting that disciplinary proceedings are initiated against Prosecutor General Eduard Harunjen over “his statements and actions”. Ciobanu resigned on July 5 from the Anticorruption Prosecutor’s Office in protest at Harunjen’s “hostile actions” against him.
In a feature for IPN, publicist Veaceslav Craciun from Comrat says the over 91% of the votes given to Irina Vlah in elections are too symbolical for us to speak only about a victory. At the same time, this is a sentence given to the Gagauz opposition and a specific feature with multiple question marks of the whole political system of the region. The reelected leader of the region is herself the beneficiary of the emergent circumstances. She took control of all the trump cards to ensure the re-formation of the power on the vertical and a political future for her team. Nevertheless, the lack of opponents and the lonely presence of Irina Vlah on the Olympus of the power in the autonomous unit pose particular risks both to the her and to the region.
A call for bids announced by the Chisinau government to select a contractor for implementing an e-ticketing system in the municipal transit system has been annulled. The Chisinau authorities first promised to implement an e-ticketing system back in 2010. The deadline, originally set for an unspecified date in 2012, has been constantly extended since. In nine years, the call for bids, now cancelled, was the furthest the process has moved so far.
A man, 29, drowned in the Nistru River while he tried to save a young woman. The incident happened on Saturday afternoon near Cioburciu village in Ștefan-Vodă district. The man was successful in rescuing the woman, but he wasn’t able to make it to the shore himself. The body could only be retrieved the next day.
The United States will offer a further $29 million to help Moldova continue its efforts of advancing good governance, transparency in decision-making and independence of the media. Also, the International Labor Organization (ILO) will provide US$ 150,000 to the Republic of Moldova for piloting two programs to subsidize employers that will create or adjust workplaces for persons with disabilities or from other socially deprived groups. The law provides the employers that will create or adjust a workplace for persons with disabilities will be reimbursed 50% of the incurred costs. The companies that will hire unemployed persons from socially underprivileged groups will get monthly subsidies equal to 30% of the monthly average official salary for the previous year during six months for each hired unemployed person.
The police in Moldova call on the authorities to toughen up the legislation on the security norms of commercial banks. The call was made after a branch of BC “Moldova Agroindbank” SA situated on Ion Creangă St in Buiucani district of Chisinau was robbed after not all the required security measures were taken to prevent such an offense. The police established the offenders entered the bank by cutting the window bars and by damaging the lock of the special room. A number of 32 victims who were caused damage totaling 29 431 840 lei have been identified so far.
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