Antimafia Movement to be registered as party

The initiative group of the Antimafia Movement on January 30 will launch a campaign to collect signatures in support of registering the organization as a party. The constitution congress was scheduled for March 6, Info-Prim Neo reports. The collection of signatures will start in Orhei, where there will be issued a statement – the Orhei Statement - that will contain the main principles of the movement. The initiative group’s leader Sergiu Mocanu told a news conference on Wednesday that private individuals, legal entities, NGOs, and parties will be invited to the event to subscribe to the statement. “The organizational form will be of a political party, but we consider ourselves a movement with a people’s doctrine that fights the mafia in Moldova,” Sergiu Mocanu said. According to him, the Antimafia Movement will start a cruel war against corruption. The initiative group said the movement is to be registered until the local elections. Its leader could run for Mayor of Chisinau. “I’m a very active man and do not rule out the possibility of taking part in the local elections as corruption and mafia thrive in Chisinau,” said Sergiu Mocanu. The Antimafia Movement considers that businessman Vlad Plahotniuc is the head of the mafia in Moldova. Now the businessman formed a dangerous alliance with Vlad Filat. “This alliance reminds me of the situation before the Second World War, when Stalin shook hands with Hitler. It seems to be me that Mihai Ghimpu might be in the place of Romania in World War II, while the Communists in the place of Poland,” Sergiu Mocanu said. One of the members of the initiative group, Gheorghe Susarenco said the Antimafia Movement aims to remove this scourge. According to him, the movement will include ordinary people, intellectuals, honest judges, prosecutors and customs officers. Daniela Bodrug, a member of the initiative group, said political clans were created in Moldova during the last few years, which seized the political power and formed suspicious alliances. Another member, Razvan Paveliu said the Antimafia Movement is a new force. Every person will be able to struggle with the wrongdoings committed in Moldova. “We must stop this mafia and prove that we are courageous,” he said. The initiative group said the signatures will start to be collected in Orhei because there is a conflict between the local mafia of the Democratic Party and the honest ordinary people who were deprived of their small businesses.