Communists pull out from electoral debates

The Moldovan Communists Party (PCRM) announced it won't participate in the electoral debates on TV, on Friday, Info-Prim Neo reports. “First, the PCRM's position on all the social, economic and political questions are well known in society. The PCRM is promoting its position through direct dialogue with the voters, and not in mutual quarrels on television,” reads a statement disseminated by the PCRM Second, the Communists Party qualifies as “impossible” any discussions about some key issues with its political opponents, the lists of which “are full of foreign citizens, criminal and international wanted people.” “Our view is that such discussions are an offense to our voters, a defilement of Moldova's democratic institutions,” the statement says. Third, the PCRM categorically declines to polemize in debates with its political opponents “for whom the Moldovan Constitution is but fiction.” In the PCRM's opinion, “such themes as selling Transnistria, renouncing the neutrality of Moldova or another state absorbing the country cannot be a subject of discussions, not even in the electoral campaign.”