The municipal administration reform in the programs of the candidates for mayoralty of Chisinau
The current structure of the municipal authorities dates from the Soviet period and is significantly bureaucratized. This makes the work of the Chisinau administration inefficient and inefficacious.
During the mandate of the current mayor Dorin Chirtoaca, who is the Liberal Party’s candidate, there was conducted a functional analysis study on the City Hall and its subdivisions, with the assistance of foreign and national experts. The reform of the municipal administration is based on this study. Regretfully, this reform has not been implemented due to the fact that the parties in the former Chisinau Municipal Council (CMC) did not have enough political will. Another cause of it is the incompleteness of the existing legal framework as regards the right of the municipality to decide its own organizational structure, delimit the competencies between the central and local administrations generally and the municipal administration particularly. There also exist legislative divergences between the law on the status of Chisinau municipality and the law on the local public administration concerning the structure, competencies and responsibilities of the municipal administration. Therefore, the reformation of the municipal public administration will represent a key concern for the future mayor of Chisinau.