The State Weather Service issued a code yellow advisory to warn about freezing temperatures, -1C…-3C, at ground level expected over the next two days during morning hours. Temperatures will be at their lowest in the time span from 4:00 a.m. to 8:00 a.m.
“We want to fully harness the economic and investment potential of the Moldova – U.S. bilateral relationship”, Prime Minister Pavel Filip told a U.S. Congress delegation visiting Chisinau. Pavel Filip noted the successful cooperation between our countries and highlighted in particular the support offered by the United States in the effort to settle the Transnistrian conflict. He also emphasized the importance of strengthening our country’s security overall and energy security in particular, with the United States’ support being particularly valuable in this respect.
The Party of Socialists’ executive secretary Vlad Batrîncea said the PSRM is ready to form a working group, as the Bloc ACUM proposed, but this should deal with the constitution of a parliamentary majority, planning of the agenda and distribution of responsibilities in the state, such as the posts of Prime Minister and Parliament Speaker and the composition of the Cabinet.
In the opinion of Igor Dodon, the Socialists and the representatives of the right have been in opposition to the Democratic Party that has been in power during the past few years. That’s why it is logical for the two opposition parties to try and reach a consensus so as to combine forces against the government. As regards the bills proposed by the Socialists, he said the PSRM during the last few years suggested a number of bills that were rejected for vote by the Democrats and these bills were fielded as voting proposals to the Bloc ACUM.
The president of the Liberal Party Dorin Chirtoacă said he would run for the mayoralty of Chisinau on behalf of the Liberal Party even if the Bloc ACUM also fields a candidate. “It is not about the party, but about the person. The Bloc ACUM or someone else should provide a person with weight who will have evidently better capacities than the other candidates, including myself if I run, so that they are worthy contenders and could solve more in Chisinau,” stated the politician.
Of the five parties that were invited to join the Union Bloc so as to compete together in the upcoming local elections or, eventually, in the snap parliamentary elections, three answered “rather affirmatively”. “Rather affirmative” answers were given by the Party “Democracy at Home”, the Liberal Democratic Party of Moldova and the Liberal Party. The People’s Movement “Antimafie” hasn’t accepted the invitation, while the National Unity Party provided no official response, but this party’s leader Anatol Șalaru commented with hostility on the invitation in a TV program, stated the president of the National Unity Bloc Ion Leashchenko.
Independent MPs Ion Groza, Alexandr Oleinic and Viorel Melnic requested the Constitutional Court to pronounce if Parliament can modify the electoral system at intervals shorter than a full mandate of the legislature and if snap parliamentary elections can be held based on another electoral system than the one used in the ordinary legislative elections. The three MPs asked the Court to examine the application as a matter of urgency, IPN reports, with reference to the Parliament’s press service.
Students in Moldova will be able to develop their digital skills, but also critical thinking and creativity at the National Center for Digital Innovations in Education “The Classroom of the Future”, inaugurated today. Here, over a thousand teachers each year will also be trained to use digital technologies in the education process. The National Center for Digital Innovations in Education is hosted by the State Pedagogical University “Ion Creangă”. It has cost over 12 million lei of public and foreign donors’ money.
Authorities in Chisinau know very little about the situation of children in the Transnistrian region. They don’t hold any data on the actual number of children, including children at risk, those left behind, or with special educational needs. Also, nothing is known about the measures to ensure legal protection for adopted children or waiting for adoption in the breakaway region. These are some of the findings of the 2018 Children’s Rights Report presented today by Children’s Ombudswoman Maia Bănărescu.
The human rights situation in 2018 didn’t improve. On the contrary, it worsened in particular areas. Continuous backsliding was witnessed in such fields as the access to justice, freedom of expression, observance of detainees’ rights and right to medical assistance, ombudsman Mihai Cotorobai said when presenting the report on the observance of human rights and freedoms in Moldova in 2018.
On Easter, April 28, trolleybuses and buses will operate until midnight, and minibuses will continue to operate for as long as passenger numbers allow.
On Memorial Easter, which falls this year on May 5 and 6, rides will be free on bus routes no. 27, C and D. Routes C and D are special bus routes introduced each year on Memorial Easter to handle the massive flow of people going to the Saint Lazarus Cemetery to honor their dead. Alternatively, people can take a minibus on routes no. 132, 134, 162 on 184.
Details on IPN!
