The protest staged in Chisinau on May 3 wasn’t a spontaneous one, while the government anticipated such a massive presence and we will yet see what concrete result these actions produce, Radu Carp, professor at the Faculty of Political Sciences of the University of Bucharest, said in the talk show “European Horizons” on TVR Moldova channel. He stated that the demands put forward by the people who took to the streets cannot be satisfied immediately as time is needed for this, but it is important that good faith should exist on both sides and that the Government should want maximum transparency in this case, IPN reports.
Radu Carp noted that one of the demands of the protesters is to make public the Kroll report on the stealing of the US$1 billion from the Moldovan banking system. He considers that the truth in this case is actually hidden, while the responsibility for the publication of the Kroll report is borne by the current Government, which should have undertaken to ensure transparency in the investigation carried out by foreign experts because it asked for this investigation.
The professor from Bucharest said a document of this king can circulate freely when the commercial secret is not affected. The Government is to submit the report and other data it possesses to the investigation bodies and to set concrete terms for dealing with this case. It is in the interests of the current Government to know what happened to the US$1 billion because this ‘business’ has international branches, and the European leaders’ coldness towards Moldova is now due to this ‘business’.
“Civil society should exert more pressure to make a connection between Moldova’s European integration road and the need to shed more light on this case. I think this connection wasn’t sufficiently ensured in Chisinau yet because any failure in investigating this ‘business’ automatically leads to a delay in implementing the reforms needed to ensure the European integration and any regression in making progress on this path leads to poverty,” stated Radu Carp.
More than 40,000 people took part in a protest against the corrupt government, large-scale thefts and the transformation of the stolen money into state debt and against the politically controlled media in the Great National Assembly Square of Chisinau on May 3. The event was organized by the Civic Platform “Dignity and Truth”.
