3 years after voting for President Voronin, opposition MPs blame one another

The parliamentary opposition has marked the third anniversary of voting for President Vladimir Voronin on April 4, 2005, on the Parliament’s floor. The statements made by parliamentarians as to that day – become memorable – have unleashed reciprocal unveilings and blames among the opposition factions. The Communist MPs disregarded their colleagues’ conversation and left the floor, Info-Prim Neo reports. MP Valentina Cusnir – a former Christian-Democrat – condemned her former colleagues from the Christian-Democratic People’s Party (PPCD) that they “took off their masks of Christian-Democrats, leaving their ugly and defiant mugs to be seen” three years ago. Valentina Cusnir has said she did not obey Iurie Rosca then and did not vote for Vladimir Voronin and was neither sick as a PPCD leader, Vlad Cubreacov, suggested, but invalidated her ballot in the booth, saying she is proud she did not betray her voters then. Liberal-Democrat leader Vlad Filat has said the vote he gave on April 4 was a mistake, he recognizes, and a historical error caused by the state of spirit highly influenced by Western powers at that moment in Moldova. “At that moment one did not want early elections, because, unfortunately, one naively believed in promises inspiring somewhat optimism then as to Moldova’s democratization and European future”, Vlad Filat said. President of the Democratic Party Dumitru Diacov has doubted the sincerity of his former party-fellow Vlad Filat. “Vlad, I know you very well and don’t believe this sincerity of yours, when you put ashes on your head, because you voted conscientiously”, said the PD leader. The speech of Christian-Democrat leader Iurie Rosca has been accompanied by a continuous exchange of replies with the Moldova Noastra Alliance MPs. Iurie Rosca has said “all the perorations about April 4 prove primitivism, cowardice or conspiracies with outside forces”. The PPCD leader has underlined “they ignore, by bad will and intentionally, the decisive character of the external factor in the crisis of March-April 2005”. Rosca has reminded that the PPCD planned to unleash street protests in case the elections had been fudged, but after the verdict given by international organizations that the elections were fair, he gave up the idea, announcing that at a news conference. According to Iurie Rosca, the Democratic Moldova Bloc had the same intention, but never explained why they did not give up protesting in the street, as they had their yellow cloaks and tents ready. Iurie Rosca recalled that even the Presidents Traian Basescu, Mihail Saakashvili and Viktor Yushchenko backed up Vladimir Voronin then because he had the biggest chances to win the elections, and the risks of overthrowing the political situation were extremely high. “I regret we have so many politicians preferring to polish their image on the account of the risks Moldova assumed then, as a country in a deep crisis at that moment”, Iurie Rosca concluded. Replying, Moldova Noastra leader Serafim Urecheanu has said Moldova was in no danger in 2005. “The fact that someone wants to wash himself off from the 4 April vote is unfair: you made a step, go further, recognize, but do not try to speculate on the account of this people”, Serafim Urecheanu urged. The AMN leader has also denied the Democratic Moldova Bloc ever intended to organize protest actions, describing the statements that the tents allegedly were ready as “flat lies”. National-Liberal leader Vitalia Pavlicenco has left the floor protesting that deputy speaker Maria Postoico declined her intention to give a speech on the same topic. On April 4, 2005, President Vladimir Voronin was elected with the votes of the Communist, Christian-Democratic, Democratic and Social-Liberal MPs.