The Bâc riverbed near the agricultural market and the construction materials market of the capital has been turned into a public toilet. Construction waste, bags, cases are thrown all over the area. As it is not known who does all this, the one to be sanctioned is the local public authority. Statements in this regard were made by Iuliana Cantaragiu, State Secretary at the Ministry of Agriculture, Regional Development and Environment, during a work meeting at the City Hall. The Secretary of State has also said that the local public authorities will take the necessary measures. In a month an inventory will be drawn up, and consequently sanctions will be applied, according to the ecological legislation.

If next Sunday elections were held for the position of general mayor of Chisinau, 35.3% of Chisinau dwellers would vote for the Socialist Party candidate, Ion Ceban, and others 30.1% - for Andrei Năstase, the candidate of ACUM DA PAS Electoral Bloc. These are the results of the sociological study conducted by the Association of Sociologists and Demographers. Almost half of the respondents, 48.8%, believe that the Government led by the PAS leader, Maia Sandu, is able to change things for the better, about - 43% are sceptical in this regard. Over 80% of Moldovans believe that no early parliamentary elections will be held in the Republic of Moldova.

"The Law amending the Prosecutor's Office Law was published in Monitorul Official (Official Gazette) of the Republic of Moldova. This means that the law comes into force today. This means that from now on the contest initiated by the CSP has been stopped”, wrote Segiu Litvinenco, referring to the contest previously announced by the CSP, according to old legal provisions, for the position of Prosecutor General, in which a number of candidates have been registered.

“I have no competition in these elections, my only competitor being the perception of my activity. The perception was formed through rumours, discrediting, lies, on biased TV channels. In Romania, for example, I would win in the first round,” The statement belongs to the chairman of the Liberal Party Dorin Chirtoaca and was made at the launching of his election campaign for the position of capital mayor. (According to a sociological study conducted by the Association of Sociologists and Demographers, 1,4% of capital dwellers would vote for liberal Dorin Chirtoacă).

In an analysis article for IPN, political scienist Dionis Cenușa notes that the EU is using the tactics of general openness towards reforms, offering Chisinau political credit but it could show more caution and critical evaluation already at this early stage. Risk areas, previously highlighted by the European officials, are on the list of government priorities. Energizing the justice reform, with the modification of the prosecutor's law, setting up a mechanism for coordinating anti-corruption efforts under the cabinet of Prime Minister Sandu, lifting the immunities of the deputies targeted in banking fraud and returning to the proportional vote, are just some of the actions appreciated in the EU, maintains the political scientist, warning that reformers in the government are ignoring the endemic corrupt feature of the Moldovan political class. The cyclical characteristic of the governing coalitions, but also the volatile nature of the regime in unstable democracies, such as the Moldovan one are also not taken into account. Under such circumstances, even if involuntarily, the ACUM bloc favors a future consolidation of the Socialists’ positions, believes Dionis Cenușa.

Representatives of the "Reunification" Permanent Round Table, who support Boris Volosatîi as candidate for mayor of the capital, urged the unionist and right-wing parties to join forces. Additionally, the intellectuals urged these groups to commence a dialogue in order to support a single unionist candidate for the mayoral position of the capital. The historian Ion Negrei believes that these local elections are the most disorganized, because the political parties have not prepared for a responsible election. According to him, the intellectuals have previously called for the unification of national right-wing forces into a single bloc or movement. Unfortunately, their call fell on deaf ears. Another right-wing candidate, Vlad Țurcanu, declared at the event of launching the Romanian Popular Party (PPR)’s candidacy for the position of capital mayor “We all need to mobilize so that the socialists can’t do as they please in the capital”.

A draft law proposing to amend several provisions of the Competition Law was registered with the Parliament's secretariat. According to Sergiu Litvinenco, this draft establishes the obligation of the Competition Council to intervene and settle cartel agreements. "Very concrete rules are set regarding the economic concentration in the field of mass-media advertising, concurrently with the obligation of the Competition Council to intervene when a problem is reported, including with the obligation to intervene ex officio to meet the public's demands", said Sergiu Litvinenco. Lawmakers intend to ban anti-competition agreements that have the effect of curbing media pluralism. The draft provides for the establishment of special requirements regarding economic concentrations in the field of media advertising, but also the establishment of special requirements for examining the alleged cases of infringement of the competition law in the media field.

During his one-week visit to the US, President Igor Dodon will deliver a speech from the UN General Assembly rostrum. According to a Presidency statement, Igor Dodon will also have bilateral meetings with several leaders from abroad and representatives of the American leadership, with influential Jewish circles and businessmen.

A former prosecutor from the Prosecutor's Office of Ocnita district, accused of committing forgery of public documents, was convicted for cumulation of offences and fined 70 thousand lei. The sentence was rendered by Edinet Court, Ocnita headquarters. The former prosecutor was found guilty of signing documents on behalf of the accused and his lawyers, after which he submitted the criminal cases to the court.

The sequester amounting to 301.6 million lei was applied as part of a criminal investigation into the crime of large-scale money laundering which allegedly occurred during the privatization of "Air Moldova" SOE. In a National Anti-corruption Center press release, it is stated that a series of fictitious transactions led to the privatization of the airline. The parliamentary inquiry commission for the analysis of the organization and conduct of the privatization and concession processes of public property found that, over the course of 2013-2019, the purpose of the privatization of the Air Moldova company was not achieved and there is reasonable suspicion that state property was dilapidated, then privatized with serious procedural violations.

Two exhibitions, which will highlight the cultural heritage of the capital, will open over the course of the European Heritage Days, a series of cultural events that are currently in progress in Moldova. The "Chișinău - past, present and future" exhibition, one of the cultural events, will take place starting at 13:00 on September 25, at the Chișinău City Museum. According to Ion Ștefăniță, the other event that aims to inform about the cultural heritage is the "Chișinău, historical retrospective, architecture, heritage and culture" exhibition, which will take place at the Brâncuși Exhibition Center, on September 25, starting at 15:00. The European Heritage Days are held from September 10 to October 12, while the events are organized with the support of the Council of Europe and the European Union. Ion Ștefăniță, general director of the Agency for Inspection and Restoration of Monuments specified that he made an official request to the Ministry of Education, Culture and Research with the proposal to introduce compulsory cultural heritage subjects to high school and university curricula. "Education starts at school and within the family," said the official.

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