Like Radu Mazăre and Decebal Făgădău, Vergil Chițac ended up on the steps of DNA Constanța, where he is being prosecuted, like the other two, for abuse of power in the workplace. Of all of them, only one came out of the DNA building saying „Don’t worry, it has nothing to do with the City Hall!”. And he lied without blinking, without moving a muscle on his face.
Unscrupulous, rude, undignified, dishonorable and cowardly, such was Admiral Chitac’s behavior during the three key moments of the day: when he walked out of the search, when he walked out of the hearings and in his last chance to save himself from drowning in ridicule, in the written statement sent to the press at the end of the day.
He lied every time with a defiant, arrogant grin in front of journalists whom he treats with a deep disregard anyway. Just as he generally disregards civilians.
Not only is the case in which he is being prosecuted for abuse of power directly related to and stemming from the institution he heads, but the mayor and his cronies have been lying and jamming information about the case and the mayor’s involvement all day long.
After the information about the DNA searches appeared, about the fact that they were taking place in the mayor’s office, that he was suspected of abuse of power, that his phone was confiscated and that he would be going to hearings, the following began to circulate, starting from Chițac himself:
1. After the raids at the city hall ended, Chițac told journalists waiting outside that it was not true, he was not going to the DNA for the hearings, but to RAJA. He may have ended up at RAJA, but he certainly ended up at DNA as well, two hours later when prosecutors called him.
2. After I published this, messages started pouring in telling me that „it’s fake news about Chițac”, „he has no connection to the case”, in fact „the prosecutors are looking for something else”, „there are searches, but for another case”, with „other charges, on other people”, and „it would be ok to retract” or „to change the news” so as „not to misinform unnecessarily”. Three hours later, DNA announced in an official press release that the mayor was being prosecuted for abuse of power, in the very case I had written about.
3. Another „helpful” variant was that there were searches in the town hall on the case I had written about, but I was still in error because no one else was going to go to the hearings except Alin Vintilă, the head of the Procurement Department. One by one, they all arrived at the hearings, including Mayor Chițac.
4. We also received „friendly advice to change the news” because, yes, the DNA searches did happen, but the prosecutors found nothing and left, „no hearing to follow”. Sure, there were no hearings because they didn’t make statements, but all three of them walked out the gates of the DNA with a criminal prosecution on their backs.
5. In the end, after Chițac failed to fool the journalists with the „walk to RAJA” and the jamming machine, he found himself in front of my colleagues whom he lied to again, telling them: „Don’t worry! It has nothing to do with City Hall”, laughed defiantly and walked away. A few hours later he made a written press statement in which he „forgot” and mixed up the types of documents that the City had concluded in the case investigated by the DNA and those that it should have concluded according to procedure.
Thursday’s episode is certainly not the last, but only the most recent in a long series in which Mayor Vergil Chitac shamelessly showed his contempt, lack of interest and distaste for transparency, decency, civil society and democratic reflexes.
What he can’t control leads to derision, what he can’t change he buries, what he can’t have he discredits, that’s how Mayor Chițac and his clique operate, in the purest UM style.
Almost all the anti-PSD-Mazăre-Făgădău narrative with which Vergil Chițac narrowly won the mayor office in 2020 has become reality in Constanța, only in reverse.
Chițac’s administration issues urban planning documents on a conveyor belt for constructions in a Mamaia resort already mutilated by Radu Mazăre, paints parking lots „with a brush” and sells land to real estate developers and politicians or controversial cases (see the land of Ion Dumitrache, head of PSD Constanta, see the land reached the family of one of the friends and business partners of Chițac’s son etc).
„Be convinced that you’ll see parking garages in Constanța”, said Chițac during the campaign, only to reply later, once seated as mayor, that „They are too expensive”.
Chițac doesn’t talk to the press, nor to civil society, doesn’t go to crowds except when his clique is preparing the ground for him, doesn’t hold press conferences, doesn’t hold board meetings where the press could attend, doesn’t answer journalists unless it’s safe and he’s not pestered with real questions, blunt interviews are a no go . He generally doesn’t want to be bothered with all sorts of nonsense from civilians who don’t know how to bow down to hierarchies.
When asked by journalists why he does anything other than what he says, he dispatches a „only fools don’t change their minds” or „I admit I’m inconsistent”.
And when journalists point out the uncomfortable reality on the coast, in the city, in civil society or in the administration, Chițac goes on the home TV platform or in the xenophobic and borderline illiterate local publication that he has chosen as his first term’s unofficial mouthpiece, from where he blames the „fake-news” of critical journalists, whom he smears from the position of mayor-victim struggling with his heavy legacy.
This is the liar.
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