“It is easy to write verses when you have nothing to say,” Igor Dodon said at a news conference on July 6. The candidate on behalf of the PCRM quoted Mihai Eminescu in reply to the Opposition’s criticism leveled against the ruling party. “It is easy to make statements. It is more difficult to implement reforms and take the country out of the economic crisis,” said the First Deputy Prime Minister, who resigned from the post for the period of the election campaign, Info-Prim Neo reports. “Our political opponents know only to make populist statements and steal anti-crisis programs from each other, without answering the voters’ question: what will they do if they come to power,” Dodon said. “Our conclusion (of the PCRM – e.n.) is that they do not have abilities and do not know how to act in such difficult situations,” Dodon said. According to him, a large part of the economists that are candidates on the lists of the Opposition parties had been in the government or had been prepared in the 1990s and do not have capacity to propose something new for the Moldovan economy, especially when there is a crisis. Igor Dodon assured that if the PCRM remains in power, the voters will further receive increased pensions and salaries. “The present government has all the abilities needed to ensure stability in the banking sector,” the Communist candidate added. Speaking about the factors that would ensure economic growth in Moldova after the July 29 elections, Dodon enumerated the development of the construction sector, protection of the national producers and development of infrastructure. He also mentioned the reformation of the state fiscal policy and setting of a common income tax. Referring to the accusation that the US$500 million loan from Russia is a loan for the PCRM not for Moldova made by the Liberal-Democratic leader Vlad Filat, Dodon said that this is electoral manipulation.