{"id":444605,"date":"2017-09-26T16:29:12","date_gmt":"2017-09-26T16:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/?p=444605"},"modified":"2017-09-26T17:11:38","modified_gmt":"2017-09-26T17:11:38","slug":"referendum-dismiss-chisinau-mayor-chirtoaca-cost-9-million-lei","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/referendum-dismiss-chisinau-mayor-chirtoaca-cost-9-million-lei\/","title":{"rendered":"Referendum to dismiss Chi\u0219in\u0103u mayor Chirtoac\u0103 to cost 9 million lei"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading Time: <\/span> < 1<\/span> minute<\/span><\/span>

On September 26th, the Central Electoral Commission of Moldova approved the budget for organizing and conducting the local referendum for dismissing Chi\u0219in\u0103u mayor, Dorin Chirtoac\u0103. The referendum will reportedly<\/a> cost 8,91 million lei (506 thousand USD).<\/p>\n

The budget is now directed to the Parliament and the Government for full approval of 19 November plebiscite. Parliament speaker, Andrian Candu, declared that the coalition majority would vote in favor of financing the referendum in the Moldovan capital.<\/p>\n

Dorin Chirtoac\u0103 was arrested on May 25th with the charge of influence traffic and passive corruption in a case on city\u2019s\u00a0parking lots<\/a>. On July 28th, he was suspended from the position of mayor of Moldova\u2019s capital until a final decision of the court.<\/p>\n

On April 27th, the Appeal Court of Chi\u0219in\u0103u\u00a0accepted the demand<\/a>\u00a0to register an initiative group launched by the Socialists to organize a referendum to dismiss the mayor of the Moldovan capital, Dorin Chirtoac\u0103.<\/p>\n

Back in September 2016, a similar demand to organize a referendum on the dismissal of Chirtoac\u0103 was made by the civil society of Chi\u0219in\u0103u, but the Appeal Court (of B\u0103l\u021bi)\u00a0rejected the demand<\/a>. Seems like the wind of the Moldovan justice seems to blow against the Liberals (both in\u00a0Government<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Chi\u0219in\u0103u City Council<\/a>), if not in Socialists\u2019 favor.<\/p>\n

Liberal Dorin Chirtoac\u0103 has been the mayor of Chi\u0219in\u0103u since 2007, now doing his third term in office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Reading Time: <\/span> < 1<\/span> minute<\/span><\/span>On September 26th, the Central Electoral Commission of Moldova approved the budget for organizing and conducting the local referendum for dismissing Chi\u0219in\u0103u mayor, Dorin Chirtoac\u0103. The referendum will reportedly cost 8,91 million lei (506 thousand USD). The budget is now directed to the Parliament and the Government for full approval of 19 November plebiscite. Parliament […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":443895,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[35],"class_list":["post-444605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-important"],"content_social_share":"Reading Time: <\/span> < 1<\/span> minute<\/span><\/span>

On September 26th, the Central Electoral Commission of Moldova approved the budget for organizing and conducting the local referendum for dismissing Chi\u0219in\u0103u mayor, Dorin Chirtoac\u0103. The referendum will reportedly<\/a> cost 8,91 million lei (506 thousand USD).<\/p>\n

The budget is now directed to the Parliament and the Government for full approval of 19 November plebiscite. Parliament speaker, Andrian Candu, declared that the coalition majority would vote in favor of financing the referendum in the Moldovan capital.<\/p>\n

Dorin Chirtoac\u0103 was arrested on May 25th with the charge of influence traffic and passive corruption in a case on city\u2019s\u00a0parking lots<\/a>. On July 28th, he was suspended from the position of mayor of Moldova\u2019s capital until a final decision of the court.<\/p>\n

On April 27th, the Appeal Court of Chi\u0219in\u0103u\u00a0accepted the demand<\/a>\u00a0to register an initiative group launched by the Socialists to organize a referendum to dismiss the mayor of the Moldovan capital, Dorin Chirtoac\u0103.<\/p>\n

Back in September 2016, a similar demand to organize a referendum on the dismissal of Chirtoac\u0103 was made by the civil society of Chi\u0219in\u0103u, but the Appeal Court (of B\u0103l\u021bi)\u00a0rejected the demand<\/a>. Seems like the wind of the Moldovan justice seems to blow against the Liberals (both in\u00a0Government<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Chi\u0219in\u0103u City Council<\/a>), if not in Socialists\u2019 favor.<\/p>\n

Liberal Dorin Chirtoac\u0103 has been the mayor of Chi\u0219in\u0103u since 2007, now doing his third term in office.<\/p>\n

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