Dorin Chirtoaca: State of things in Municipal Council will not bear on City Hall's work

Chisinau's general mayor Dorin Chirtoaca shows himself confident the situation created in the Chisinau Municipal Council (CMC) will not severely affect the activity of the City Hall, Info-Prim Neo reports. On Friday, June 6, 27 municipal councilors voted for the dismissal of Mihai Ghimpu and for electing Social-Democratic faction leader, Eduard Musuc as the CMC president. The other councilors describe the dismissal as illegal. As CMC presidents, both Mihai Ghimpu, and Eduard Musuc, convened the CMC sitting for Tuesday yet, June 10, at different times. Dorin Chirtoaca has told journalists on Monday the City Hall works in accordance with the CMC's decisions already approved. However, he says, there are a range of issues that can be solved by the CMC only. “Tomorrow, I'll ask to resume the work, because there are series of draft decisions, including the Regulation on decentralizing the City Hall's powers and rendering more competence to district offices (preturi),” Dorin Chirtoaca said. Asked which sitting he will join out of the two, Dorin Chirtoaca has said there is only one CMC and single sitting. In his opinion , the CMC president remains Mihai Ghimpu. He invoked the Local Public Administration Law, according to which, to dismiss a president of the district or municipal council 2/3 of votes are necessary. Instead the simple majority is enough to appoint him. The same procedures is used in electing other state dignitaries, as presidents of countries and parliaments, the mayor said. Asked how the City Hall will respond, if the scandal of the last sitting is resumed, the mayor has said: “in case the public order is violated, normally the police should intervene in relation to the City Hall activity. Yet, taken into account the councilors are locally elected, everyone is responsible for the atmosphere and way of working.” Chirtoaca has emphasized the political struggle is normal for a democratic society, but it should take place using democratic levers. He exemplifies “No matter how we would not like to have the Communists ruling in Moldova, knowing they make abuses, make pressure on the local public administration and violate the law, we realize we can oppose this regime only by democratic means.” The councilors from the Communists Party, the Christian-Democratic People's Party, the Social-Democratic Party and the Christian Humanist Party voted last Friday to dismiss Mihai Ghimpu from the position of the CMC president. The councilors from the Liberal Party, the Moldova Noastra Alliance and of the Liberal-Democratic Party qualified the move as an attempt of coup d'etat and usurpation of the power in the capital. Mihai Ghimpu is the president of the Liberal Party, as mayor Dorin Chirtoaca is the deputy president of this party.