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Sitting at the Chisinau City Hall

The chief of state and Government leadership attended a sitting at the Chisinau City Hall headquarters. According to the chief of state, the sitting was convoked to “identify together some new approaches and ways for an operative settlement of the most pressing problems of Chisinau residents.” Vladimir Voronin indicated among pressing problems the need to decentralise the municipal structures and to delegate some competences to praetor’s offices, to reduce number of city hall functionaries. The elaboration of a general development plan for the municipality, a document that “the Government would approve after the city hall” examines it, is one of basic tasks of the local authorities in Chisinau. The chief of state solicited the cabinet of ministers to modify the state budget law for 2005 and to distribute 100 million lei to the Chisinau City Hall for purchase of trolleys and buses. He appreciated the efforts of municipal authorities for a successful implementation of projects such as reconstruction of the Hipodromului street, monument of Stefan cel Mare si Sfint, National Opera square, and modernisation of some districts in the capital.

Representatives of the Chisinau Municipal Council, journalists and certain candidates for the November 27 electoral campaign commented in contradictory on this visit of Vladimir Voronin and statements he delivered on this occasion. Thus, the chief of state was accused of meddling in the electoral campaign, since the candidate to the mayor-general post, Vasile Ursu, also attended the sitting, though he has earlier been relieved from the post of ad-interim mayor-general, while the projects indicated by Moldovan president serve as base for the electoral programme of independent bidder Vasile Ursu.

More power to local authorities

Attending the opening of the seminar “Local Public Administration — Existing Situation and Perspectives”, Moldovan President Vladimir Voronin described the tackling of some problems related to activity of local public bodies as necessary and opportune, and noted that the existing public administration system “has justified the expectations, providing adequate levers for an efficient direction and coordination of activity in the territory.”

As regards tasks, Voronin particularly indicated the need to award more competences to local public administration authorities, so that to allow them to solve efficiently problems of residents from territories administrated in the financial, administrative, economic and social sectors. He solicited the active participation of district and local authorities in implementation of the National Programme Moldovan Village, highlighting the need to create jobs in the territory. According to the chief of state, most of 300,000 new jobs must be created outside of the Chisinau municipality, as result of the land consolidation process.

The chief of state solicited opinions of public administration authorities regarding the opportunity to create a specialised ministry, in line with recommendations of competent international institutions.

Problems regarding introduction of standard VAT for agriculture

Vladimir Voronin has convoked decision makers from Government, Parliament and Presidency to examine problems related to introduction of the standard VAT for agricultural production. Although he opts for equal conditions for all businesses, the chief of state asked that the new share “not to bring losses to agricultural producers or to halt the land consolidation process.”

To avoid negative effects of implementation of this decision, urgent measures have been ordered aimed to introduce a norm in the state budget law for 2006 to stipulate the reimbursement of the entire VAT to agricultural producers. However, producers do not support such a mechanism, saying that it works hard because of bureaucratic mechanisms. The almost 2,000 VAT payers in agriculture will have to calculate and pay these amounts to the budget and to seek their reimbursement immediately.

New tasks against corruption

The chief of state said while on a visit to the Centre for the Struggle Against Economic Crimes and Corruption (CCCEC) that this structure “must pass from the phase of constitution to a qualitatively new stage, with more exigencies and duties.” The increase of activities of analysis and forecast is needed for this purpose, while the results of investigations of this department must determine the further activity of CCCEC.

Also, the president expressed dissatisfaction that “the centre captures only small offenders, while sharks receive no sanctions.” Therefore, CCCEC was urged to focus its activity on struggle against big corruption among heads of ministries and departments, inspection and law enforcement bodies, and even the structures of the Parliament.

The chief of state voiced a similar requirement at a recent sitting of the Information and Security Service.

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