Government's intolerance towards critical opinions is bad signal, Alexandru Oleinic
The ruling parties prefer to ignore differing opinions from other political parties and conceal the problems faced by Moldovan society, said politician Alexandru Oleinic, former minister of information technology, in an interview with Radio Europa Libera.
One of the concealed problems, according to Alexandru Oleinic, is the lack of any results from the probe into the April 2009 events.
He said: “There were concrete cases, cases of people who died or were ill-treated while in custody. They were all documented. Why is it that we don't have a clear answer to all this? We should know that history doesn't forgive such mistakes and it will happen as it happens in football: if you don't score, you'll concede. Sooner or later, society will pass a judgment with respect to those events, and the worst thing is that it will judge those who didn't have the courage to tell who was responsible. This is why today we need a new political party in our country”.
“It seems strange to me that the today's democrats who had struggled for so many years to democratize the country have become intolerant towards critical opinions and views that differ from their own”.
“The Prime Minister, for example, was not afraid to say that Mr. Cosarciuc lost his ministerial seat because he had sided with protesting farmers”, said Oleinic.
He further stated that “this is precisely why I think that the country needs a new political party, to preserve at least the tendency towards becoming a true democracy”.