Another team of Christian-Democrats (PPCD) from Telenesti district announce they abandon the party in a sign of solidarity with their colleagues having done the same several weeks now protesting against “the lack of democracy within the party.” In a statement allegedly signed by 48 people, including a mayor and six local councilors, quoted by Info-Prim Neo, the signatories show themselves outraged at the recent statements of the PPCD leadership accusing other runaways of corruption. The authors also maintain the PPCD lost its authority in territories some time ago and accuse the leadership of not consulting the PPCD members before the vote of April 4, 2005. They also complain there is no democracy within the PPCD, that, if someone utters an opinion not corresponding to the position of the leaders, he is ousted from the party, and if someone leaves the party, he/she is called corrupt, menaced to be dismissed, or physically aggressed etc. The signatories say they join the 17 colleagues of theirs who recently abandoned the party and declare themselves independent. After a group of former PPCD members from Telenesti district had recently announced they gave up their PPCD membership, the deputy president of the party, Stefan Secareanu, stated on the Parliament’s floor he blamed the leader of the Liberal-Democratic Party, Vlad Filat, of attracting the local elected from other parties by corruption. Secareanu said either the group of the Telenesti PPCD members would allegedly have received money from Filat and would have solved certain economic problems. Filat rejected the claims.