Chisinau City Council still without chairman

The capital city is still having just one deputy mayor. The issue on the appointment of the other three deputies and on the election of the City Council’s chairman wasn’t included on the agenda of the extraordinary meeting convened Thursday, October 4. The issue was touched upon by several councilmen, but it didn’t reach the supplementary agenda either. Democrat councilman Oazu Nantoi remarked in his opening interpellation that in four month of activity the Council hasn’t debated any strategic projects. “The voters in Chisinau regard the CMC meetings as a follow-up to the election campaign”, said Nantoi, stressing that only by appointing the City Hall’s office and electing the CMC chair, who will strengthen the relations between the local elective authorities and the executive branch, will the Council be able to break the deadlock. Humanist councilman Fr. Sergiu Cires reiterated his earlier request to start the meetings with a prayer to God. “Our ambitions just don’t let us get along with each other”, the councilman said. His proposal didn’t get the required number of votes. Journalist Ana Lucia Culev, who worked at the municipal Radio Antena C since its inception in 1998 until reorganisation, was elected as deputy mayor of Chisinau on September 20. The other two candidates - Dionisie Boaghe and ex-deputy mayor Mihai Furtuna, were short of two and one vote, respectively, to obtain the 50 percent plus 1 vote required.