About 100 members leave MAE to join Democratia Acasa

About 100 young people from the European Action Movement (MAE) announced today they were leaving the party to join the Movement “Democratia Acasa” /Democracy at Home/, saying they were neglected by the MAE leadership and had no chance to advance. Four former MAE members told a news conference at Info-Prim Neo they were not allowed to participate in the party's decision-making process. Maxim Revenco, the ex-chairman of MAE's youth branch in Ciocana, said any initiative coming from young people was suppressed from the start by the MAE leadership. “We decided to leave the party because it's not well organized, they didn't announce us in advance about the meetings that were to take place. Young people are largely neglected there, their projects are not appreciated, not even considered”, said Maxim Revenco, arguing he was confident Democratia Acasa would provide better opportunities for the youth as a movement that intended to bring change. The speakers at the conference also criticized the MAE for an outmoded turn of mind, for approaching problems as it was done 20 years ago, and for using youths as mere tools for hanging up campaign posters. They also claimed MAE was a disordered party without a long-term agenda. Vasile Costiuc, member of Democratia Acasa's initiative group, observed that young people were leaving other parties, too, including parliamentary parties, because, he said, they understood that they had been exploited in election campaigns. “The government used the youths in the election campaign and then forgot about them. Yet there can be no change with old people, with politicians from the 80s and the 90s, but only with new people, new politicians”, stated Vasile Costiuc, adding: “the movement Democratia Acasa allows us to say and do what we think right, to get involved and act based on the values that we want to promote”. The movement Democratia Acasa is not yet formally registered with the Ministry of Justice.