The June 5 local elections were held in the southern Moldovan autonomous region of Gagauz Yeri [Gagauz Land] according to “the highest European Union standards”, as the head of the autonomy’s executive power branch, Bashkan Mikhail Formuzal, has put it.

Gagauzia Popular Assembly [parliament] Chairperson Anna Harlamenko has accused Bashkan of Gagauzia Mikhail Formuzal of usurpation of power in this southern Moldovan autonomous region.

The Association for Participatory Democracy (ADEPT) has called on voters to visit the website www.alegeri.md in order to make a conscious choice on the June-5 elections.

The Leo Pres company, organizations Moldpresa and Summa Group (Turkey) intend to file a suit against the Chisinau Primaria for illegal actions in the amount of over 10 million lei.

By abusing their high posts, the former Moldovan Acting President and current Liberal Party Chairman Mihai Ghimpu and incumbent Chisinau Mayor Dorin Chirtoaca worked out Mafioso schemes to steal public funds, Marcel Darie, candidate for Chisinau Mayor from the Party for Law and Justice, stated at a news conference in Infotag today.

The national independent trade union organization Protectia Sociala [social protection] supports candidate of the Social Democratic Party of Moldova (SDPM) – Sergiu Coropceanu – for the Chisinau Mayor post.

The Adjuta Cives Association maintains that the Ministry of the Interior and its Police Commissariats in all raions of Moldova work for the Liberal Democratic Party headed by Moldovan Prime Minister Vladimir Filat.

The opposition Communist Party candidate for Chisinau Mayor, MP Igor Dodon, appears to have somewhat better chances of outstripping the incumbent Mayor, Liberal Party candidate Dorin Chirtoaca at the June 5 local elections, as per the opinion poll carried out by a group of researchers from Moldova State University and from European Institute on May 12-15. The pollsters interviewed 1,201 persons, and are saying statistical error should not exceed ± 3%.

The Chisinau residents, Tatiana Plotnikova and Adel Idris, have asked the Moldovan Government to register their child born at home on September 12, 2010.

The most popular aspirant for Chisinau Mayor is the Liberal Party candidate for the post, incumbent Mayor Dorin Chirtoaca, as per the findings of the Vox Populi opinion poll carried out this month by the Moldovan Association of Sociologists and Demographers.

Lawyer Mihai Corj has said that the Chisinau Municipal Council (CMC) did not observe properly provisions of the tax legislation on real estate (apartments, cottages and adjoining land plots) in 2010.

In 2007, Deputy Mayor of Chisinau Nistor Grozavu demanded 10% of stocks of the Guga-Comlux company in exchange for an authorization to equip a special recreation and entertainment zone for children and matures (similar to the Disney Land) on the grounds of public-private partnership. The statement was provided by Marcel Darie – candidate for the Chisinau city governor post of the Party of Law and Justice.

The Moldovagaz enterprise leadership said that, within 2 months on internal investigation, it revealed all consumers, who participated in the fraudulent scheme of gas bill payments. The statement was provided by Chair of the company’s Board Alexander Gusev at the press conference on Tuesday.

Moldovan citizens will feel economic growth only if it is based on investment, and not consumption, experts of the Expert-Grup center have said.

The first music concerts Promos Crossover Tour – Jazz & Clasic will be held in Moldova on May 19-22.