Dress up in the Parliament of Moldova. The mayor of Chisinau was forcibly removed from the plenary session. “Valea! Run right to the town hall!”
The mayor of Chisinau, Ion Ceban, entered the plenary hall of the Chisinau Parliament on Thursday and tried to give a speech from the central stand, but he failed, because the security agents forcibly removed him from the room, which generated booing, booing and accusations in the legislature, reports News.ro.
After several exchanges of words with deputies, branceli and an attempt to speak from the legislative rostrum, the mayor was removed from the meeting hall.
Later, several PAS deputies criticized the appearance of Ion Ceban at the Parliament meeting, noting that he is neither a deputy nor a member of the Government. At the same time, they qualified the mayor's action as “a lamentable attempt at victimization”.
What Ion Ceban wanted to tell the parliamentarians
Ion Ceban told NewsMaker that he had proposed to convince the deputies to support a referendum on the administrative-territorial reform and to discuss the schools in Chisinau that would be administered directly by the Ministry of Education.
The mayor claims that he was provoked by PAS deputy (ruling party) Vasile Grădinaru, who asked him to leave the plenary and deal, first of all, with the problems of the capital of Moldova. “Valea! Run away to the town hall!” said Grădinaru to Ceban.
Later, Grădinaru qualified Ceban's actions as illegal because his intervention disrupted the legislative process.
The leader of the “Home Democracy” parliamentary group, Vasile Costiuc, supported the mayor, declaring that he should be allowed to express his position.
PAS deputy Radu Marian said that he believed that Ceban would have been under the influence of prohibited substances. Ceban declared that he is ready to take anti-drug, anti-alcohol and other tests. “Blood, urine, whatever you want,” he assured.
Romania announced last year that starting from July 9, 2025, Ion Ceban is prohibited from entering Romania – and the Schengen area – for a period of five years, for reasons related to national security. Along with the mayor of Chisinau, two more citizens of the Republic of Moldova received the same ban, which came in the conditions in which crucial parliamentary elections were to be held in Chisinau in the fall. Ceban ran for the Parliament, but gave up the mandate in favor of that of the mayor.
