Jurists say Vladimir Voronin could be sued under 17 Penal Code articles
Vladimir Voronin could be held accountable for usurpation of state power, misuse of power or misconduct in office, blackmail, swindle, deliberate acts aimed at inciting hatred and over at least 10 counts of accusation. This is the opinion of the jurists contacted by Jurnal de Chisinau, Info-Prim Neo reports, quoting the publication’s website.
The jurists also mentioned the violation of the principle of equality of rights, hindering of people from exercising their right to vote, vote rigging, infringement of the right to freedom of assembly, misuse of internal and foreign publicly guaranteed loans, constraint to make a transaction, interference in the activity of the judiciary, etc.
Political analysts were quoted by the foreign and national press as saying that Vladimir Voronin’s withdrawal from politics and the voting by the PCRM for the candidate proposed by the democratic coalition for the head of state, in exchange for penal immunity for Voronin, would be a solution for overcoming the political crisis. The analysts invoked the example of Russia’s Boris Yeltsin and Georgia’s Eduard Shevardnadze.
Earlier, analyst Petru Bogatu told Info-Prim Neo that the democratic parliamentary majority should not negotiate with Vladimir Voronin about his immunity as they would betray the electorate, the families of Valeriu Boboc and the other victims, the young persons killed and tortured after April 7, the persons who were murdered or went missing while Voronin has been in power. “Voronin cannot be treated as Shevardnadze or Yeltsin. He must be treated as Milosevic (the former Yugoslav president) who was removed from power by the people and was then condemned for crimes and genocide,” the analyst said.