A new political party called Common Action – Civic Congress Party, founded by former MPs Mark Tkachuk and Iurie Muntean, appeared on the Moldovan political arena. The party is said to be “the first anti-crisis party in Moldova”. The new party’s political program was published by Mark Tkachuk on his Facebook page, IPN reports.

According to the program, the party aims to swiftly and radically change the whole system of public relations where the modernized economy should be used to ensure continuous human development.

The party will also struggle to ensure and extend the social rights and freedoms of the absolute majority of Moldovan citizens, banking on the initiatives and groups  of civil society. The politics of the party is based on such values as social justice, solidarity and humanism, scientific conception of the world and critical analysis.

Mark Tkachuk sat in Parliament in 2001-2002 and in 2009-2014. He served as presidential adviser to Vladimir Voronin. When he vacated the seat of MP in 2014, he was excluded from the Party of Communists (PCRM). He then said that he would definitively withdraw from politics. Iurie Muntean held the seat of MP in 2009-2014 and worked as deputy minister of economy when Igor Dodon served as minister of economy. He was excluded from the PCRM in 2014, alongside Mark Tkachuk and Grigore Petrenco.

The Common Action – Civic Congress Party is the third party created in Moldova in the recent past. A new party called the Save Bessarabia Union (USB) was founded by the former vice president of the Liberal Party Valeriu Munteanu. Another party called APEL (Law Ensures Parson’s Defense) was founded by former local councilor of Drochia district on behalf of the Liberal Democratic Party Gennady Buzilă.

There are 45 officially registered political parties in Moldova.