A group of Independence War and Afghanistan War veterans held a press conference today to throw support behind the new Government headed by Maia Sandu and express their indignation at the “criminal actions of the previous non-democratic government which now refuses to peacefully cede power”.
Gheorghe Slutu, a retired police colonel and Nistru war veteran, read out a statement addressed to public employees, urging them not to block the normal functioning of government agencies. Law enforcement employees were reminded in particular that they took an oath to uphold the law and protect the people, and not “a criminal grouping that seized and usurped power in the state and which instigates a coup with unpredictable consequences”.
“To unblock the current situation, we have to stay united and free the state institutions that today are encircled by tents set up by the former government, by the mob”, stated war veteran Constantin Boișteanu.
According to Gen. (R) Anton Gămurari, “regretfully, in the past decade only people connected to the criminal world have governed the country, stealing it and sowing division”, but “what happened on Saturday is a chance for Moldova to go forward”.
Former defense minister, Brig. Gen. (R) Vitalie Marinuța said the statement is addressed to anyone striving for a new and free life, after all the state institutions have lost the trust of the people and international partners. Now it is important to restore it, says Marinuța, and this can be achieved with a new government and a new attitude towards state institutions.
