PPR urges Opposition parties to challenge decision to nationalize plots in Giurgiulesti Port zone in Constitutional Court

The Popular Republican Party (PPR) calls on the Opposition parties to challenge in the Constitutional Court the law that declares the building works on the Free International Port Giurgiulesti of public utility. Under the law that was recently adopted by the Parliament, the owners of land located in the zone of the Giurgiulesti Port will be expropriated. A number of 62 hectares will be nationalized overall, Info-Prim Neo reports, quoting a communiqué from PPR. “It is evident that the ordinary people are being treated unfairly and that the power tries to camouflage its personal interests presented as state interests,” the communiqué says. According to PPR, the port will work closely with the Cahul-Giurgiulesti railway line and the residents of this zone will be expropriated because they don’t want to sell the land at derisory prices. The port belongs to private individuals that received numerous advantages from the state: were exempted from paying all the taxes, were allotted free land on which to locate the oil retail units (filling stations). The necessary infrastructure was built from state money. At the same time, in exchange for these benefits, the investor will not insure lower prices for its products as the other economic entities working on the same segment of the market do. “We can say that the steps taken by the governors in this respect have nothing to do with the interests of the country or its people. On the contrary, the citizens are the ones that suffer the consequences,” the communiqué also says. The party points to lack of transparency in the negotiations over the Giurgiulesti project – a proof that there are hidden interests. PPR reminds that the party’s president Nicolae Andronic said that he was against the signing of the Agreement on the Giurgiulesti Terminal even in 1995.