The Democratic Party of Moldova intends to complain to international institutions with evidence that the current government has usurped state power and intends to rig the local elections that will take place in October, said the former Prime Minister Pavel Filip, during a press briefing on August 15.

"We will file several complaints and notifications to the General Prosecutor's Office, based on proven facts of usurpation of state power by the current governing regime, including between June 8 and 15, as well as based on more illegalities, abuses and excesses of power”, said Pavel Filip.

The former prime minister has stated that he will not pressure the prosecutor's office to issue a favorable solution and that he expects objectivity and professionalism.

Pavel Filip added that several PDM members are threatened and blackmailed with politically created criminal cases related to the false accusation of state power usurpation. "A time has come when politicians do justice. They tell prosecutors what their case should be before they even let them start the investigation”, said Pavel Filip.

The former prime minister said that the current ruling coalition starts cases en masse in order to intimidate the opposition before the local elections. "This publicly ordered case, by politicians, is a very clear act of state power usurpation. Neither do we nor do the authors of this case believe in it, yet they are desperate to get revenge”, said the Democrat.

Pavel Filip told that PDM mayors are directly threatened. "What kind of fair elections are we talking about, if the carrying out of these elections is already compromised by way of intimidation aimed at PDM mayors", the former prime minister asked.

Pavel Filip concluded that the politically created case related to the usurpation of power is “nothing more than a departure from the democratic principles of local elections".