AE set off from point A and reached point A, as we presumed, Anatol Plugaru and Mihai Petrache

Former Minister of Security Anatol Plugaru and the chairman of the Centrist Union of Moldova Mihai Petrache, in a news conference on September 10, urged the people to hold the Alliance for European Integration (AEI) responsible for political incapacity to govern, Info-Prim Neo reports. ”We call on the relevant bodies and the people to protest and ask the AEI if we have mafia in the country. Society wants to know if those who want to become President of Moldova form part of the mafia or not,” Anatol Plugaru said. He stated that the governing alliance was warned what actions it should take to avoid the failure of the referendum, but it did nothing. During a year, the member parties of the AEI showed they cannot get along. Both Anatol Plugaru and Mihai Petrache say the population does not trust the AEI and thus did not take part in the referendum. “This plebiscite was a protest by the people. In reality, the ruling alliance did not form an anti-Communist coalition. It was created with the aim of sharing the power,” said Anatol Plugaru, who was a member of the first Parliament. ”Not the Communists Party, but Mihai Ghimpu is to blame for the failure of the referendum,” Plugaru said, adding if Vladimir Voronin returned to power with the help of the AEI, he would award a medal for special merits in restoring the capitalist communism to Mihai Ghimpu. Plugaru stated that the member parties of the governing alliance do not have time to solve the country’s problems as they are busy with promoting their political images The leader of the Centrist Union said the PCRM also showed inability to govern. Mihai Petrache referred to the boycotting by the PCRM of the referendum, its incapacity to deal with the April 7 protests and the refusal to attend the parliamentary sittings. Anatol Plugaru and Mihai Petrache proposed a draft law providing for the punishment of the MPs who miss the sittings. In the same bill, which was submitted to the AEI, the two say the presidential elections should be secret and all the MPs should be obliged to take part in them. Anatol Plugaru said the AEI should first of all provide answers over the accusations made by former presidential adviser Sergiu Mocanu and a group of businessmen, who stated the country is governed not by those whom we elected, but by those who bought the seats. The two said the present administration should immediately set up a parliamentary commission of inquiry with special powers that would probe those allegations, or at least an ordinary commission that would transmit the collected evidence to the Prosecutor’s Office and courts. They added the special commission of inquiry will be obliged to respond to people’s questions by the November elections. They also consider there should be set up a governmental commission that would reassess the qualifications of the employees of the Center for Combating Corruption and Economic Crime and establish if the property of the prosecutors, judges and CCCEC officers corresponds to their salaries. The Government should also create a consultative council for the President and Prime Minister and a public tribunal composed of specialists (prosecutors, judges, officers) with irreproachable reputation and politically unaffiliated. Anatol Plugaru and Mihai Petrache say the Prosecutor General and the CCCEC head should be suspended from posts for the period of the investigations. “A hotline must be set up that the people could use to report cases of corruption, preserving their anonymity. The law enforcement bodies should weekly present reports on the situation in the area,” they said.