Inhabitants of nearly 130 blocks in Chisinau have no access to elevators

Despite orders given by the local public authorities of Chisinau on unconditioned functioning of all the lifts from multistoried blocks, the inhabitants of 130 blocks do not beneficiate of this service. The head of the municipal enterprise “Liftservice”, Constantin Onica communicated for Info-Prim Neo that at the moment 130 lifts are not functioning, of which two because of technical disorders. The others are switched-off by the power supplier Union Fenosa for the debts accumulated along several years. The head of the commercial management of the Union Fenosa Group in Moldova, Grigore Potanga, states that disconnections were operated because of the debts for electric power. Both Government and Mayoralty, says the quoted source, insisted that the debtors present a schedule of payment. The inhabitants present nothing to the power supplier but pretensions. At the same time, the dwellers are revolted of the sums included in the invoices without taking into consideration the lack of counters and the necessity to distribute these sums to all the inhabitants. Grigore Potanga says that Union Fenosa has transformed into a loan institution for flats’ owners. The sum of 18.5 million lei which constitutes the total sum of debts for the illumination of common places and lifts’ functioning has transformed into a long-term credit, without the certitude it will be paid back to the Union Fenosa Group. Under these conditions the court remitted execution right in order to accumulate this money from the bank accounts of the beneficiaries, but the accounts are empty, states Potanga. Also Potanga says that the inhabitants do not want to draft a payment schedule, because previously the interim Mayor Vasile Ursu, promised them to solve this problem, by which only misled them. The dwelling fund of Chisinau municipality has about 3500 elevators, and at the moment the managers of the flat owners’ associations owe about 18.5 million lei for electricity consumption of in the common spaces of the apartment blocks.