The Christian-Democratic People’s Party (PPCD) presented its electoral objectives in a news conference given by the party’s chairman Victor Ciobanu, former leader and current top candidate in the future elections Iurie Rosca, and German Doctor of Economy Norbert Neuhaus, who is an expert in local administration. The major goals announced are to restore national sovereignty and to hold the current government accountable for usurpation of power, IPN reports.
Among the other electoral objectives of the PPCD are to support the national businesses, to protect the home market from the invasion of foreign goods and to re-conquer the Russian market, to reform the local administration by extending fiscal autonomy, to provide financing per capita, and to reform the legal system by ensuring its independence.
Both Iurie Rosca and Norbert Neuhaus said that Moldova cannot choose between the West and the East until it does not solve its internal problems. “Neither Moscow nor Brussels will come to defend the interests of the Moldovans. Merkel (German Chancellor Angela Merkel, e.n.) will not come to clean up here. Moldova must solve the problems faced by the Moldovans,” said Norbert Neuhaus, adding that Moldova must become a geopolitical subject, not a geopolitical object.
Iurie Rosca said the current confrontation is not between the Communists and Liberals or between Moscow and Brussels, but between the ruling mafia clans. He accused the current ruling alliance of annulling the reforms done at the Central Election Commission, the Audit Office and the Supreme Council of Magistrates in 2005-2009 in a bid to concentrate all the branches of power in the hands of its leaders.
According to Rosca, the usurpation of power in the state started on April 7, 2009, while the appointment of Nicolae Timofti as head of state is the most recent example of usurpation. Asked who he will form an alliance with in the next legislature, the former Christian-Democratic leader said he is ready to cooperate with anyone who is against the current government, which must be jailed, including with the Communist Party (PCRM), the Party of Socialists or the Party of Renato Usatyi. “Dodon and Usatyi are eccentric young men, but I like them,” he stated.
The Christian-Democratic People’s Party is one of the main political forces of the national renaissance movement. In 2005, the PPCD formed a government coalition with its rival PCRM. Iurie Rosca had headed the party from 1994 until 2011, when he offered his seat to Victor Ciobanu. In the November 28, 2010 early parliamentary elections, the party scored 0.53% of the vote. Afterward, the PPCD practically disappeared from the political arena until this summer, when it announced that it will take part in the November 30 elections with Iurie Rosca at the top of the list of candidates.
