Five members of the Political Bureau of the Social Democratic Party (PSD), including the secretary general Eduard Musuc, have announced they leave the party, Info-Prim Neo reports. “The PSD is an antidemocratic party that does not observe its statute and program, is an antinational party because it supports this position that runs counter to Moldova’s national interests,” Musuc told a news conference on April 15. He referred to the PSD’s proposal to concede Transnistria to Russia for a period of 30 years. According to Musuc, the PSD does not have a future if it does not abandon the proposal presented on March 20. “At every elections, either parliamentary or local, we will be treated as traitors, as people that lease out their country,” Musuc said. He considers that the PSD achieved a modest result in the present elections also because it did not promote young persons. “The people wanted to see new persons, new faces,” Musuc said. Together with Musuc, the party is left by vice president Victor Ciobanu, vice president Ghenadie Tatar, executive secretary Elena Panus and executive secretary Olga Oncea. According to Elena Panus, there is lack of democracy in the party as only the PSD president Dumitru Braghis was present in the party’s electoral materials and ads. “I cannot form part of a team that does not respect the decision of the majority,” she said. Iurie Bolboceanu, president of the National Council of the PSD, said that the decision to leave the party was made by the five persons after Eduard Musuc and President Vladimir Voronin held talks on Tuesday. “We are not a wing of the PCRM and will never be even if Musuc wants it. The PSD members will not allow the party to become somebody’s Ltd.,” Bolboceanu said at another new conference held the same day. He denied that the PSD was an undemocratic party and that the proposal to concede Transnistria had not been discussed by the PSD’s National Council. Eduard Musuc was excluded from the PSD last week. Then, the party’s president Dumitru Braghis told Info-Prim Neo that the decision to exclude Musuc was made after they established that he worked against the interests of the PSD and in favor of another election runner during the election campaign and stopped the propagandistic activities in the municipality of Chisinau. Eduard Musuc denied the accusations. He said that the decision to exclude him from the PSD was illegal, stressing that he was elected as secretary general at the party’s Congress and can be dismissed also at the Congress. Eduard Musuc headed the Social Democratic Party until December 2007, when the party merged with the Social Democracy Party led by Dumitru Braghis. By a majority vote of the delegates, Dumitru Braghis was elected as president of the unified Social Democratic Party, by secret vote.