MP Artur Reshetnikov, who left the Communist parliamentary group together with another 13 colleagues, made an appeal to the leader of the Party of Communists (PCRM) Vladimir Voronin, saying the group is dying, more exactly that the Communists’ leader is killing it by his actions. In an open letter to his former chief, the lawmaker says the attacks that Vladimir Voronin staged on his former colleagues through the media are mean and regrets that this didn’t understand that he made his colleagues leave the group by the actions he took after 2009 and also made the supporters of the PCRM to become disappointed in the party.
In his letter, which is quoted by IPN, Artur Reshetnicov says that he often stated his dissatisfaction with the behavior of the party, which either didn’t accept to governor or didn’t want to be in the opposition. He condemns Vladimir Voronin’s position of oscillating between the European course and the Eurasian course.
Artur Reshetnikov said that after the dismissal of the Strelet Government and the provocation of a new political crisis, a group of Communist MPs met with Democratic MPs. Then, they were offered half of the portfolios in the Government and the post of Prime Minister. But Vladimir Voronin didn’t allow them to discuss the issue and to have other meetings with the Democrats. However, at that time the Communists’ leader met in secret with the first deputy chairman of the Democratic Party Vlad Plahotniuc and discussed possibilities of obtaining the post of President for him with this.
The Former Communist recommends Vladimir Voronin to review his attitude to the party and group colleagues and to take into account their opinions.
A group of 14 MPs left the Communist parliamentary group on December 21. Vladimir Voronin called them traitors and expressed his surprise, saying nobody complained and said nothing about the possible defection.
