The chairman of the Civic Union for Direct Democracy Ruslan Popa said he was threatened with death by sympathizers of the Communist Party after he wrote on a social networking site that the march mounted by the Communists on November 23 represented an act of betrayal of the voters and sympathizers of the party.

“I said that this revolution is a betrayal of the people who wanted the situation to be changed. The people came to the event thinking that the government will be removed the same day, but the march ended with a concert by Vladimir Voronin and Iurie Muntean. The people were guided around the Government Building where there were only guards inside,” Ruslan Popa said in a news conference at IPN.

According to Ruslan Popa, his appraisal of the Civic Congress, which he left a month ago, also aroused dissatisfaction. The activist said the Civic Congress was created as a civil society platform for monitoring the government, but it turned into a body controlled by the PCRM.

The chairman of the Civic Union for Direct Democracy also said that if he or anyone of his relatives is hurt, the blame will be borne by the PCRM, which allows more and more persons with fascist views to join its ranks.

Ruslan Popa stated that two persons were admitted to the hospital with different traumas after the November 23 protests. The PCRM’s heavyweights tried to hide this fact and even called a private ambulance service so that the information about the two cases couldn’t be disseminated.

Ruslan Popa left the Civic Congress a month ago, arguing that it is politically biased. He then announced that he and several colleagues of his created the Civic Union for Direct Democracy.