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The municipal transportation is one of most serious problems. If minibuses were a solution 10 years ago, they halt the development of public transportation at present. There is too little municipal public transportation. We will project alternative transportation means, including tramways. Minibuses shall keep working, but not all of them and not in the current condition. There is much work to be done in this respect and the public transportation problem will be raised on the first days of the mandate. In particular, I will evaluate desires of citizens regarding this problem and configure the municipal transportation depending on proposals and recommendations of residents. The local governing must work together with citizens and for benefit of citizens.
The traffic is another problem. The downtown is actually congested all the day. We propose belts to link the districts, so that 30 percent of motor vehicles that cross the downtown would go in that direction. Also, the city needs a roundabout belt. Relieving the city also rests with how the parking problem will be solved, so that projecting new parking sites is also a priority for us.
Not the last, the road building is a priority of my mandate. Residents of Chisinau need modern roads.
Municipal services are often of low quality and inefficient. We will seek contracts between operators and consumers.
The city has many disadvantaged families which need minimum living standards. The mortgage construction is our solution. However, banks do not provide favourable conditions: the 14–15 percent interest on a 10-year credit is too much. We want to bring branches of known international banks, to free the capital circuit, we want the competition of capital supplies to allow a 5, 6, 7-percent interest on mortgage loans and credits to be granted for 15–25 years.
The problem of suburbs, particularly of more than 35 localities without any status called fruit growing farms — areas with villas — will be shortly resolved. Between 30 and 60 percent of residents of these localities do not hold residence permits because nobody issues them, they cannot cast their ballots, and they live like suspended. We will award a clear status to these localities.
The City Hall must build entertainment areas inside and outside the city. We have considered a mode of organisation of the entertainment area Vadul lui Voda and we will focus on attracting serious investments, which will further bring great benefits to Chisinau and the whole country. Entertainment zones inside the city are also important. We have a number of lakes which have not been cleaned up for a long time and swimming there is dangerous, so that we must resolve this problem. Creating swimming pools for townsfolk would be a good solution. We have pools but swimming there is very expensive. The pools we want to build will be accessible to people with medium earnings.
The welfare of population is an indicator of socio-economic development of the capital. Boosting the welfare of city residents consists in growing the hope for life and reducing the death rate, stimulating internal migration of labour force by creating new well-paid jobs, developing a coherent social assistance system.
I see only one way in this direction on short term, notably attracting foreign investors in Chisinau. They will create new jobs and pay decent salaries, inclusively to make migrants come back home and work here. The Christian Democratic People’s Party (CDPP) is capable to attract foreign investments in city due to its European opening, support of the West. A proof in this respect is the fact that Moldova has benefited of about 2 billion dollars from the United States due to the CDPP.
Chisinau has an extraordinary scientific potential. It is pity not to use it for people of this city. Thus, I want to implement a series of partnerships with intellectuals from city, so that the latter to be accepted to participate in configuring the decisions on community. The intellectuality of our city is a fortune that we must not ignore. For this reason, we must not neglect the material dimension of relationship with intellectuality. The CDPP has proposed the local council in 2005 to increase the salaries of teachers by 20 percent. We will resume this draft and we will insist to persuade all political forces to support the enforcement.
Telling we have corrupt functionaries is not enough; we will evaluate exactly the functioning of this mechanism, which does not work for the benefit of citizen at all. The mayor who “ruled” Chisinau in 1994–2005 has created this mechanism. I do not know if any citizen would tell us that the City Hall institutions work for people. There are some mechanisms that consume citizens rather than solve their problems. I have seen dozens and hundreds of people waiting months or even years for an authorisation, in the period when I was local councillor and now when I am deputy mayor. This is a corrupt, hyper-bureaucratised and often incompetent system. The local governing must work for citizen’s benefit. The administration must be open to citizens. We will organise permanent consultations on various problems with people, so that to ensure a transparent decision-making process. The participative democracy will be one of our priorities.