The president of the Liberal Party Dorin Chirtoacă denied the PL’s responsibility for the worsening of the state of affairs in Moldova while the party had been in power following the power-sharing and secret division of the inspection and regulatory bodies between the component parties of the Alliance for European Integration that ruled in 2009-2015. “The legislation inherited from the communist government didn’t allow naming the heads of inspection and regulatory bodies in a different way. What we did wasn’t complicity. We voted because they vote like this in alliances,” stated the current leader of the Liberal Party that had been in power in 2009-2013, IPN reports.
The Liberal leader said that he, together with his colleagues, is trying to resuscitate the party following the decline in popularity witnessed in the recent past. He noted the party is preparing for the next local elections that will take place this year.
“There are periods – ups and downs, falls and rehabilitation. We are trying to revive like a Phoenix rising from the ash,” Dorin Chirtoacă stated in the program “Black box” on TV8 channel.
He noted he discusses with his colleagues so as to identify eventual candidates for mayor and councilor whom they could field in the upcoming local elections.
Also, Dorin Chirtoacă does not rule out the possibility that he will run once again for the mayoralty of Chisinau municipality. “The Liberal Party will definitely have a candidate. This could be me. We will see what the people say, if they want me to run,” stated the former mayor. He noted he would present a list of activities to the voters and this would include the continuation of the projects he started when he held the post of mayor.
As to his investigation for alleged acts of corruption and to his appointment as president of the Liberal Party, Dorin Chirtoacă said: “I resisted and started to attack”. He referred to a series of own public investigations into the undeclared property of his political opponents.
Dorin Chirtoacă had been elected mayor general of Chisinau municipality for three times.
