Supporters of the Revival Party and other political parties came together for an antigovernment protest in front of the Parliament Building. They chanted “Down with dictatorship”, “We want snap elections, “Stop PAS”, IPN reports.
MP Vasile Bolea, a member of the Revival Party, said the people came to protest against the low pensions and salaries, the shortage of jobs. The current government is not at all concerned with stabilizing prices and charges and Moldova has the highest rates in Europe, especially the gas rates. This government doesn’t do many things, starting from justice and ending with the economy.
Another member of the Revival Party Alexander Sukhodolski said that the current government is concerned exclusively with its own life and comfort, instead of taking care of the needs of citizens. He called on the ‘healthy’ political class to combine forces to remove the current administration from power. “A new session of Parliament started today and I want to urge all the residents of our country to do everything possible, within the law, so that this parliamentary session is the last one for the current Parliament,“ stated Alexander Sukhodolski.
“Today we decided to join this protest to tell once again the governments and personally Maia Sandu that they must leave because they didn’t deliver any results to our citizens and our country is even destroyed every day,” said MP Marina Tauber.
MP Vadim Fotescu noted that the protest was attended by all those whose mouths the government tries to shut up by all legal and illegal ways. All the laws promoted by the ruling party PAS have no connection with real problems of the people. The citizens are constantly witness to illegal closures of political parties and TV stations, to the persecution of opposition politicians, candidates in local elections. “They believe that only they can decide what we should listen to and what kind of opinion the people should have. All narratives are directed exclusively at one thing – loss of sovereignty, loss of neutrality of our small but beautiful country, stated the MP.
MP Alexandr Nesterovschi, who was recently released from house arrest, was also noticed at the protest. According to the Anticorruption Prosecutor’s Office, by the Chisinau Court of Appeals’ decision of January 24, the lawyers’ appeal was accepted and the preventive measure applied to Nesterovschi was changed from house arrest to provisional release under judicial control for a period of 60 days.
Before the protest, the Revival Party said that the authorities exerted pressure on the organizers of the rally. The security forces confiscated cars and other equipment of protesters. Units of transport in Straseni and Soldanesti were prevented from running.
