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Chisinau municipal council's meeting postponed due to lack of quorum

12:47 | 08.11.2017 Category: Political

Chisinau, 8 November /MOLDPRES/- The meeting of the Chisinau municipal council was postponed today, due to lack of quorum. The largest number of factions, the Liberal Party (PL) and Party of Socialists (PSRM), were absent.

Acting mayor of the capital Silvia Radu said that several issues of social interest were to be considered today, and the fact that local officials were not present at the meeting shows that they do not respect the citizens of Chisinau. At the same time, the official asked that all local representatives come at the next meeting at the scheduled time and not be late by half an hour or 45 minutes, as is usually done.

“Today, only six councilors were present at the meeting. Delays and absence from the meetings are inadmissible, because the local representatives receive wages from the municipal budget, which are several times higher than the average salary. It is a lack of discipline and respect for the city hall and residents of Chisinau. So far, over a thousand requests have been gathered from private people who have passed all internal procedures and are only waiting for the approval of the council”, Radu said.

“There are legal procedures that local officials can challenge my appointment, they could come in to ask me questions, they could get me out of this room, but I do not understand why they did not come to the meeting. If the problem is me, we sit down and talk, but so just citizens have lost”, Radu said.

The head of the PL faction in CMC, Ion Cebanu, motivated the absence of the faction from the meeting that “Liberals do not participate in illegalities currently taking place at the city hall”.

For his part, leader of PSRM faction in CMC Ion Ceban wrote on a social network that “the interim office is ensured illegally, the agenda proposed at CMC is old and corrupt, so PSRM will not participate in these actions”.

Former director of the Gas Natural Fenosa company Silvia Radu, appointed earlier this week as deputy mayor of the capital, took over the duties of acting mayor during the period when mayor Dorin Chirtoaca is suspended from office. PL and PSRM have disapproved the decision.

 

(Reporter A. Ciobanu, editor A. Răileanu)

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