Moldova's parliamentarians claimed that Taraclia was considered too small to be financially autonomous and administratively efficient.
Taraclia, a southern county mostly populated by a Bulgarian minority, is to be incorporated into one of the eight new counties.
Vodenski retorted that the "problem of human rights" was hardly "an internal issue." On October 9, the Taraclia administrative body formally requested parliament to keep the county a distinct territorial-administrative unit.
The amendments granted county status to the former Taraclia raion, a southern region populated primarily by ethnic Bulgarians.
Taraclia was originally slated to be part of Cahul county, which is populated primarily by ethnic Moldovans.
MCP claimed that recognizing distinctive counties, such as Taraclia, and autonomous regions, such as Gagauzia, would indirectly impede Moldova's reunification with Romania (a policy supported by various groups, including the rightist CDPP).
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