An authoritarian regime is set up in Moldova – leaders of opposition party

The leaders of the Social Democrat Party of Moldova (PSDM) say that an authoritarian regime that controls all the fields – political, economic and social, has been set up in Moldova after the parliamentary elections of 2005 and after the creation of the coalition PCRM-PPCD-PD, Info-Prim Neo reports. Head of PSDM Eduard Musuc told a press conference that the current red-orange coalition has set up in Moldova an authoritarian regime that is responsible for Moldova’s degradation in all the fields. Referring to politics, Musuc said the opposition has been intimidated and annihilated, with the implication of the state institutions and administrative resources. The so-called reformation of the Communists Party is only an intention, while the depoliticizing of the head of state has failed, to the interest of the government coalition. The President controls the Parliament, Government, judicial institutions, while the Prosecutor’s Office became an instrument for fighting with the opposition: its leaders end up intimidated, arrested and eliminated from the political arena. That is why Moldova loses tens of cases at ECHR. At the same time, in order to win the elections again, the ruling party creates and registers more small parties, which have no branches in the territory, Musuc asserts. The leader of PSDM says that the Broadcasting Code and the Audiovisual Coordinating Council also are instruments in the hands of the Power. At the same time, through the Ministry of Local Public Administration the Power created an instrument of interference in the local autonomy, compromising the decentralization process and transforming this structure into a staff of the Power in the local elections. Deputy head of PSDM Eugen Roscovanu told the same press conference that Moldova’s economy is in a continuous process of annihilation, foreign investors turn their back, horrified by the existent realities, agriculture faces an extremely crisis, the small business is degrading, one in five children suffers from malnutrition, so that the country is on the brink of a social explosion. Roscovanu is puzzled by the fact that in the budget for this year it is planned the sum of 86 mln lei, which will be collected from fines. According to the cited source, if in 2001 each Moldovan citizen had a debt of 400 dollars as a result of the credits taken by the state, at the moment this sum is of 4,000 dollars. Roscovanu says that in several years the pensioners will not be able to benefit from pensions for the reason that the necessary sum are not transferred to the social Fund because of unemployment. “In any civilized country, the ratio of pensioners versus employees is of 1:3, while in Moldova this proportion is a pensioner to 0.9 employees”, the quoted source says. In conclusion, leaders of PSDM said Moldova’s degradation started in 2001, when the communists swept to power.