The counterdemonstrations staged by different parties and groups of citizens are the regime’s response to the national resistance movement. The Government is trying to minimize the effects of protests, to divert attention and to compromise the opposition’s actions, the leader by the Party “Action and Solidarity” Maia Sandu stated in the program “Truth live”, IPN reports.

According to Maia Sandu, the mayor of Orhei Ilan Shor, by the protests he mounts, is used by the regime as a tool and this is not for the first time he is used against the opposition or to appropriate state property. As to the videos by which Ilan Shor addresses Maia Sandu and Andrei Nastase, the politician said Shor brought the political narrative in Moldova to the lowest level.

The opposition’s protests in districts are organized to inform the citizens about the illegalities committed in the country and about the protest planned for August 26. “We should reach the people and inform them and encourage them, including those who are harassed, so that we mobilize for the August 26 protest in a large number,” stated Maia Sandu. She also said the people are very dissatisfied with the ruling regime. “There is also fear. The people feel more intimidated now than two years ago. We bank on the diaspora members who promise to come home in August. Those who cannot come mobilized and will protest outside the country,” stated the politician.

As to the authorities’ assertion that the opposition parties influenced the European Union not to provide the macro-financial assistance promised to Moldova, Maia Sandu said such an opinion is typical for the Moldovan political regime that shows disrespect for the MEPs by saying that these can be influenced. “The institutions work and inform themselves not from one source. A lot of people, including from the upper level, know sufficiently about the Republic of Moldova,” she stated.