Analyst Alexei Tulbure said the year since the last independence anniversary was probably the most disastrous one for democracy and the rule of law in the Republic of Moldova. The government in the period crossed all the red lines in undermining democracy. The analyst stated such an opinion when being asked by IPN to enumerate the most relevant events or actions that strengthened or, on the contrary, weakened the values of democracy, independence and the rule of law since the previous anniversary of Moldova’s independence.

According to Alexei Tulbure, political commentators are accused of not speaking about the government’s accomplishments, but they would have spoken about these if such had existed. Alexei Tulbure reminded that in the absence of a national consensus, contrary to the recommendations of the Venice Commission, despite the positon of the main development partners, the EU and the U.S., the government introduced the mixed-member electoral system, to the detriment of the general interest and democracy, favoring the ruling party and its representatives.

The analyst noted that when the government nullified the results of the people’s vote in the Chisinau mayoral elections through the agency of the fully controlled judicial system, the last democratic redoubt – the citizen’s right to choose the power - was annihilated. “We were ‘electoral democracy’, but are no longer as such. We are a nation that managed to transform the own independence into a tragedy,” stated Alexei Tulbure.

According to him, now, before the independence anniversary, the government prepares to implement a criminal scheme to launder the stolen billions. The adoption of the law on fiscal amnesty, the amendment of the nationality law and the passing of the privatization law are aimed at enabling the return of the stolen funds to the country so as to use them to buy state-owned companies and then to take this money out of Moldova as ‘clean’ already.

Alexei Tulbure believes the stolen US$ 1 billion will return, but not to the National Bank or the budget, but to the thieves who now form the country’s ‘ruling class’. “It will be we, the citizens of the Republic of Moldova, who will pay back the money stolen by “Plahotniuc & Co.”.

The analyst also said that a year has passed since the last independence anniversary of the Republic of Moldova, but the feeling that we do not have law, justice and future in the country became almost absolute.

Repeat of August 21