Constituency No. 29: Chisinau municipality consists of a part of Centru district and of a part of Râșcani district. The electors there will vote at polling places No. 29/1-29/30. The candidate who wins the largest number of votes in a single-member constituency, regardless of the voter turnout, emerges victorious.

The list of candidates on the ballot is headed by the Democratic Party’s candidate Valentin Guznac, an engineer and jurist by profession. He held different posts in Bălți town, including that of deputy mayor. Since 2006, when he returned to Chisinau, he served as deputy minister and minister of local public administration, MP, director of the Licensing Chamber, deputy secretary general of the Government. Currently, he heads the Chisinau Multifunctional Center No. 1 of the Public Services Agency. For the past two years, the candidate and his wife declared over 640,000 lei salary and almost 79,000 lei earned as the representative of commercial organizations. The family owns a car.

The Party of Socialists’ candidate Adrian Lebedinski, a jurist by profession, is under No. 2. He entered Parliament in October 2015. He started his career in the internal affairs bodies of Moldova in 1998. He worked as an investigator in the prosecution division and deputy commissioner of the Centru and Buiucani police commissariats. In 2010, he obtained a lawyer’s license. Over the past two years, he and his wife earned almost 555,000 lei salary and 408,000 lei from selling property. The candidate gained over 190,000 lei pension of service member and over 2.3 million lei allowances from the Ministry of the Interior in 2018. The candidate owns four lots of land, three apartments and two cars.

The candidate of the electoral bloc ACUM DA PAS Ruslan Verbitski, a mechanic-engineer by profession, comes third. He heads the Râșcani local organization of the Party “Dignity and Truth Platform” and is the vice director of SRL “R-Stil Design”. He works as an entrepreneur based on patent. For the last two years, the candidate declared over 38,000 lei revenues. The family owns three apartments, a commercial area and two cars.

The Shor Party’s candidate Inna Popenko, an internist at the Orhei District Hospital, is under No. 4. Inna Popenko ran for President in 2016, but was excluded from the electoral race, being accused of voter corruption and of not declaring the costs incurred in the election campaign. For the last two years, the candidate declared 126,000 lei salary. She didn’t declare property.

The fifth spot on the ballot is taken by the Liberal Party’s candidate Dumitru Jelescu, a jurist by profession. In 2013-2014, he worked as a specialist at the Human Resources Division of the state-run company “Guard Services” of the Ministry of the Interior, while in 2014 – 2015 as a consultant at the General Human Resources Division of the same Ministry. Currently, he serves as an MP assistant and is the vice president of a public association. For the last two years, the candidate and his wife declared almost 440,000 lei salary. The family owns three apartments.
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The IPN division “Know candidates in your constituency!” presents the candidates who compete in each single-member constituency in the order in which they were written on the ballot.