The Liberal Party (PL) on October 26 announced the official opening of its election campaign for the November 30 parliamentary elections. In the opening event, all the party’s candidates in the elections mounted the stage. They were joined by Mayor of Chisinau Dorin Chirtoaca, who is the PL’s first deputy chairman. He announced that he will soon vacate his post and will take the second position on the party’s list of candidates, IPN reports.

The pillars of the PL’s platform are: the joining of NATO, alongside the integration into the EU; the promotion of the national Romanian values in Moldova, and ensuring of a corruption-free government. Speaking about the November 30 elections, Dorin Chirtoaca said they are a competition not between parties, but rather between two ways that the country can follow. “We do not choose between parties, between green, red, blue or pink or between flowers, trees, hampers, sickles, red stars and other symbols. We choose between the future and the past, prosperity and poverty, peace and war, to be or not to be, the European Union and the so-called Customs Union,” he stated.

“There is no way back. We cannot return to Siberia, to poverty and humiliation, to gulags. We must follow only the path to the European integration and the Liberals can ensure such a development,” said the party’s leader Mihai Ghimpu. He accused the current government of hypocrisy, corruption, using resources for electoral purposes and damaging the EU’s image in Moldova.

First deputy chairman of the PL Anatol Salaru underlined the importance of the presence of the Liberals in the future government coalition, reminding that Dorin Chirtoaca will be the PL’s candidate for the post of Prime Minister. “Moldova needs the PL in power and a patriot, professional and dedicated Prime Minister in the person of Dorin Chirtoaca,” said the former transport minister.

Former youth and sport minister in the Alliance for European Integration Ion Cebanu said namely the Liberal Party can ensure the efficient and honest government of the country with few resources. “With a lot of money, anyone can achieve results, if they do not steal it. Only the Liberals can cope with a little money,” he noted.

The Liberal Party was registered by the Central Election Commission under No. 14 in the ballot for the November 30 legislative elections.