The Alliance for European Integration (AEI) will lose at least 10% of its voters if it bans the symbols used by the Communists Party (PCRM) – the hammer and sickle, Communist lawmaker Vadim Misin said, quoted by Info-Prim Neo. “We can replace the hammer and sickle by a tractor driver with the sledgehammer. In their place, I will think more about the consequences of such an act,” Vadim Misin told a news conference on May 25. Earlier, representatives of the AEI said the Communist symbols must be destroyed because they remind of the catastrophe through which Moldova went together with other Eastern European states. Lawmaker Igor Dodon, who was recently admitted into the PCRM, said the party should be modernized and its symbols might be changed. He stated yet that in the campaign for the 2011 local elections, the PCRM will use the same symbols.