Over 150 members from four territorial branches of the Social Democratic Party (PSD) announced Thursday they were leaving the party, a week after other about 100 members from Chisinau and districts did the same, Info-Prim Neo reports. Those 24 members from Ocnita district, 20 from Sangerei district, 11 members from Causeni district, joined by deputy president Vasile Molodilo, and over one hundred members from Cimislia say they made the decision because they do not back PSD leader Dumitru Braghis's idea to rent Transnistria to another country. “This statement negatively impacted the PSD's electoral campaign, as the work of the party's activists and members was compromised. We do not want to be held responsible in front of the whole country for a statement running counter the Moldovan Constitution,” read those four statements of theirs. The Ocnita signatories maintain that in making his decision Braghis did not consult with the territorial organizations, “acting alone in the name of the entire party.” “We're firm no district structure of the PSD would have accepted to undersign an anti-national initiative,” the statement goes. When asked by Info-Prim Neo to comment the decision of the PSD members, deputy president Iurie Bolboceanu has said that was a decision of just several members, since an entire district organization may leave after the decision is made by the party's top organs. On the lack of consultations claimed by the former members, Bolboceanu has said “those were Musuc's manipulations” and that Dumitru Braghis did have the right not to consult the territorial organizations. A week ago, about 100 members from Chisinau, Drochia and Rezina joined Eduard Musuc, who had announced he was leaving the party on April 15. But even earlier Musuc was ousted from the PSD by the Political Bureau of the party, charged with “working for another electoral competitor during the electoral campaign.” Eduard Musuc declined the accusations, calling his dismissal illegal. The Social Democratic Party had been led by Musuc till December 2007, when it joined the Social Democracy Party, the president of which was Dumitru Braghis.