The Shor Party achieved a modest result in elections because the people are impressed by electoral promises rather than by concrete deeds, considers the party’s president Ilan Shor. In an interview given through Skype to PrimeTV, Ilan Shor refused to confirm or reject the information that he is in Israel, as the prosecutor general said, IPN reports.

Ilan Shor noted he assumes the failure experienced in the snap parliamentary elections in which his party obtained a modest result, passing narrowly the election threshold. A part of the initiatives announced by PAS in the election campaign are populist. The politician criticized the PAS’s intention to transform the National Anticorruption Center into an institution similar to Romania’s National Anticorruption Directorate. He said that the Shor Party’s parliamentary group will support the bill to remove parliamentary immunity, but will not vote for the bill to confiscate the property of state functionaries as they consider this is a cudgel used by PAS against political opponents.

“We must improve people’s living standards and corruption will then disappear. The people will not be tempted to take bribe if they have good salaries. The people should not be arrested and shown on TV to make the other people afraid. The quality of life should be increased. It’s a pity that the government starts not from raising pensions, but from the ambition to arrest someone,” Ilan Shor stated in the program “Prime-Time” on PrimeTV channel.

He said former Democrat Sergiu Sîrbu will be in charge of drafting their parliamentary group’s legislative proposals, but he will focus on legal aspects, not yet on the political ones.

“Sergiu Sîrbu was named vice president of the party responsible for legal issues. He will help draft bills, will monitor the bills of our opponents, but will not influence the party’s political decisions. Sîrbu wasn’t correctly understood. He didn’t mean his withdrawal from politics. He just said that he will not take part in taking political decisions for a period,” stated Ilan Shor.

In the snap parliament elections of July 11, the Shor Party won 5.7% of the vote and will have six representatives in the new legislative body.