The Ecologist Green Party of Moldova announced it will take part in the parliamentary elections of February 24, 2019 and in the local elections of next summer. In a news conference at IPN, the party’s secretary general Vitalie Marinuța said the party will have candidates in the national constituency and in single-member constituencies at the parliamentary elections. Half of the candidates will be women and the 30% quota of young candidates will be respected.

Vitalie Marinuța said the Ecologist Green Party of Moldova pleads for the parliamentary form of government, strengthening of the rule of law, defense of national sovereignty, ensuring of decent living conditions, promotion of the principles of democracy, respect for pluralism and separation of powers in the state.

According to the secretary general, the environmental problems in 2018 were a priory for the party. There were staged a number of lessons on ecology in schools and universities. The party also takes part in different national and international roundtable meetings centering on environmental concerns. The party submitted a number of petitions to the Government concerning the danger faced by the Nistru River owing to Ukraine’s intention to build six new hydropower plants on the Nistru.

Next year, besides the participation in elections, the Green Ecologist Party aims to be more active in the public sphere, to promote the ecological values and to establish partnerships with ecologist parties of EU member states and other countries. In the summer of 2019, it will stage a summer camp that will involve young people from Moldova and abroad. The part will also establish cooperation relations with representatives of the local public authorities of Moldova and the local authorities of the EU that are managed by representatives of ecologist parties.

Through the agency of the ecologist parties of EU member states, the Ecologist Green Party of Moldova aims to field a Moldovan candidate who also has the nationality of a EU member state in the elections to the European Parliament of May 2019. In this connection, Vitalie Marinuța made a call to the Moldovans in the EU, who hold also the nationality of a European state and who share the ecological values. If they want to run in the European Parliament elections, they should seek help from the Ecologist Green Party of Moldova, which will make approaches to the green parties of the states where they live so that they are put on the lists of candidates.

Party member Natalia Yatsko made a call to all the women in Moldova to join the party so as to change things in the country, both at economic and social levels, and the ecological situation.