PCRM treats member parties of AEI differently
The Communists Party (PCRM) treats differently the member parties of the Alliance for European Integration, with analysts assessing this treatment also differently, Info-Prim Neo reports.
During public debates on Moldova 1 on August 19, the PCRM’s executive secretary Iurie Muntean repeatedly avoided naming the Moldova Noastra Alliance (AMN) as a component of the ruling coalition and blamed the other three parties for the failures of the present administration.
He confirmed for Info-Prim Neo that he used such a tactic intentionally.
“It is evident that Mihai Ghimpu, Vlad Filat and Marian Lupu are the AEI’s motrical forces that determine the coalition’s behavior. Urecheanu does not have a strong influence in the AEI. He had a say last year, when his party had seven seats of MP. Now Urecheanu became the victim of his own ambitions,” Iurie Muntean said.
According to him, after the April 5 legislative elections, in the period of the previous legislature Serafim Urecheanu was warned by the Communist leader Vladimir Voronin that they will poll fewer votes in the July elections. “It happened as he said. Urecheanu’s party entered Parliament with seven not eleven seats. Now the AMN has only four MPs and does not have a faction, according to the law,” Muntean explained.
“I presume Muntean named the three leaders because there is evident rivalry between them for important positions inside the governing alliance now and in the future,” the first vice president of the AMN Victor Osipov has told the Agency.
The AMN continues to promote the principle of unity in the AEI as it considers the rivalries should be avoided and the exaggerated ambitions and political egoism should be abandoned. “This probably makes our opponents not to consider us as a component of the government coalition involved in internal rivalries and mutual attacks,” Osipov said.
Political analyst Corneliu Ciurea believes this way the PCRM wants to remove the AMN from the Moldovan political scene.
“For the PCRM, it is important to focus its attention on the main rivals and it is not interested in the AMN anymore. They want to make the parties of the AEI keep silent, sealing in a way their departure from the political arena. The AMN is the first target as this party does no have a good standing in polls. This is yet a signal for the member parties of the AEI, which should find a compromise solution and include the AMN in the future Government after the early parliamentary elections. I think the ruling alliance has more chances of survival in four than in three,” IDIS Viitorul expert Corneliu Ciurea stated for Info-Prim Neo.