The real reasons for which six members left the Democratic Party and its parliamentary group are actually not those that were made public. The argument that the PDM will be in a coalition with the PSRM wasn’t confirmed. “The PDM currently does not negotiate the formation of a coalition on the left or on the right,” the party’s president Pavel Filip stated in a news conference after the meeting of the PDM’s Executive Bureau, IPN reports.
According to Pavel Filip, such decisions, if they are taken, will be made in a transparent way within the party’s National Political Council. He considers his colleagues were used as pawns in a game that is not their own by far. However, he noted such aspects as whose permission they asked and with whom they coordinated their leaving are less important for the PDM.
In another development, the Democratic leader said the decision of the six mates to leave the PDM and its parliamentary group is regrettable, but was predictable.
Pavel Filip expressed his regret at the fact that those colleagues didn’t come to state their dissatisfaction at the party, but chose to go away. He regrets the fact that some of those colleagues weren’t even in the country when the party went through a crisis last summer and these didn’t become involved in the campaign prior to the local general elections or in the process of strengthening the party. “They probably stayed away from the PDM in the hope that this will fall apart, but, seeing that this didn’t happen, became very and very active,” noted the politician.
Pavel Filip also said it is regrettable that the wish to defend the European course and the Nistru veterans, announced by the six, took shape only after the meeting of the National Political Council of the PDM held last Saturday, where some of the mates weren’t elected vice presidents.
“Between us and the colleagues who left, there are differences in views about the internal democracy that should exist in a party, about the way in which the political parties should be financed, about the way of conducting politics in the Republic of Moldova. The method of taking decisions in the PDM has changed. The fact that the decisions are taken not by a narrow group of people, but by broad consultations distanced these colleagues further,” stated the president of the PDM.
He noted that from now on the PDM cannot be influenced from outside. The decisions taken by the party will represent exclusively the wish of the members and supporters of the PDM. The Democratic Party remains a pro-European party and this thing was confirmed in time and will yet be confirmed.
