Municipal Councilors comment differently upon the dismissal of deputy mayor Fiodor Negru

The deputy-mayor of Chisinau, Fiodor Negru was dismissed after almost half a year of activity. The interim mayor Vasile Ursu signed an order on this issue, on the basis of Negru’s request, which was presented to the municipal councilors at the CMC meeting on June 20. Solicited by Info-Prim Neo to comment this decision, the municipal councilor of “Moldova Noastra” Alliance, Oleg Cernei, declared for Info-Prim Neo that the dismissal order is not legal because until June 26 Negru was on vacation. At the same time, Cernei states that Fiodor Negru is “a person that came accidentally to a key-position”, due to his affiliation to the governing party which has a crisis of personnel. “a ex-barman could not have the necessary skills to administrate the social, medical and cultural fields of Chisinau, so by appointing Negru to this position, the factions of the communists and PCDP “were playing deputy-mayor”, proving in this way a total lack of responsibility”, Cernei says. According to Oleg Cernei, Negru is “a conflict person, who has numerous economic interests, proved by his insistence to head the Central Market”. More, the quoted source says, there are some suspicions that Negru constructed illegally a house and repaired using municipal money the Bariera Sculeni Street, on which he lives, prejudicing the municipal budget with 2 million lei. Cernei states that the Municipal Prosecutor Office was informed about these facts. The councilor of the Social-Political Movement “Ravnopravie”, Valeri Climenco states that Fiodor Negru spent those 2 million lei for personal interests. Being at that time the head of the communist faction of the Municipal Council, Negru insisted that the Public Transport and Communication Ways Department to perform repair works of the Bariera Sculeni Street. Climenco states that this violation of legislation was the reason of the dismissal of the former head of the Finance Department, Victor Ghilescu, who did not want to violate the legislation and to give money from the Municipal budget. According to Climenco, Ghilescu, who did not want to comply, was called by Vasile Ursu and Fiodor Negru and obliged to submit a dismissal request, only 2 months before his legal retiring. Climenco states that he personally informed the Municipal Prosecutor Office, but until now he received no answer. According to him “a waiter at the “Prichindel” café” could not hold the office of deputy mayor, fact that demonstrates communists’ lack of personnel”. The independent councilor Mihai Roscovan states that the reasons of Negru’s dismissal were not presented to CMC. He supposes that the dismissal was influenced by several reasons. One of them is the intensification of the fight for communists’ candidature for general mayor in the 2007 local elections. Roscovan states that Negru was striving for this position, but “his small professional and intellectual skills” did not convince the leadership of CPRM which after all the failures in the local elections “seek a for sure candidate”. Even at the inauguration to the position of deputy mayor he was accused of using public money for personal interests. Later, this deputy-mayor “ subordinated some institutions that had nothing in common with the social area, as the Central Market or the Veterinary Service, known by the possibility of generating illegal money. “All these actions disgrace the communists’ party, which wants to prove to the inhabitants of Chisinau the benefits of “ceasing the Mayoralty”, says Roscovan. According to him, “taking into consideration the fact that, in the last time, the controversial decisions of CMC are voted by communists together with PCDP, an agreement on giving the position of deputy-mayor to coalition partners is not excluded”. The quoted source affirms that the variant of the court’s decision effect to reestablish Mihai Furtuna to the position of deputy-mayor is not excluded. Solicited to comment the dismissal of Fiodor Negru, the communist councilor Vitalie Secara, the head of the Commission for budget, economy, finance and public patrimony, declared that he has nothing to comment and that he does not know the candidate for the position of deputy-mayor. The leader of the communist faction in CMC, Svetlana Pop, declared for the reporter of Info-Prim Neo that he “has no viewpoint” on this issue. Popa says that Negru requested the dismissal because of health problems, because “health is not a subject to joke with”. According to the request on the base of which the dismissal order was remitted, Fiodor Negru solicited a legal leave during June 13 -26, with “further dismissal”. Solicited by Info-Prim Neo, Fiodor Negru explained his decision by his “own wish”. Asked if there is a special reason, Fiodor Negru declared he has “none to disclose”.