The Great Centenary Assembly of March 25, 2018, staged by the Alliance for the Centenary that consists of a number of unionist organizations, will involve locals from Moldovan communities that signed statements on the union with Romania and, expectedly, representatives of pro-European and unionist parties from Moldova and Romania. Details were presented by the organizers in a news conference at IPN.
Representatives of the Alliance for the Centenary said each village and town that signed statements on the union will receive a flag with the name of the community on it. So far there were prepared 121 such flags. “With flags of such a type, we will go to the nearest and the furthest settlements to give them to the mayors who signed union statements so that each community is well-positioned in the Square on March 25 and we see that it is there, while their representatives came proudly to the Great Centenary Assembly,” said Anatol Ursu, chairman of the Civic Movement “Moldova’s Youth”.
The first name-bearing flag was handed over in the new conference to the mayor of Parcova village of Edinet district Marcel Snegur. The mayor said he signed the union statement together with his colleagues as they felt urged by grandparents and great-grandparents and by children too to return home, to the motherland. Moldova can ensure the welfare of its people only through the union with Romania. “If we don’t do it today, when will we do it? If not we, then who?” asked Marcel Snegur, who is also the co-chairman of the League of Unionist Local Elected Officials.
Ion Leashchenko, head of the National Unity Bloc “BUN”, said it is very important for the March 25 event to involve as many people as possible, with different political beliefs and of different ages. They held meetings with leaders of parties that assumed the union either by the party’s statutes or by statements, such as the Liberal Party, the National Liberal Party and the National Unity Party. The organizers decided that each party will be able to take part in the event with the own symbols. The political leaders could also give speeches. The event scheduled for March 25 will be held peacefully, by avoiding destabilizing actions, as it is rumored.
According to George Simion, chairman of the unionist platform “Actiunea 2012”, persons from Romania will also come to the March 25 event. “We come to be near the entire unionist movement that exists in the Republic of Moldova. We come to say that the unionist movement in Romania is prepared and powerful and daily works on the accomplishment of this national desideratum,” he stated.
Chairman of the Association “UNIREA - ODIP” Vlad Biletski said over 20 education institutions of Moldova signed statements on the union with Romania. Both mayors and directors of education institutions are pressed and hindered from showing their reunification wish. “The Romanian nation is waking up! We have over 20 education institutions that stated their reunification wish and the number continues to increase daily. Moreover, representatives of the diaspora signed statements on the union and announced their presence at this Sunday’s event in a large number. We have only one goal – to ensure a unionist majority in both of the Romanian states. This is possible and the reunion is approaching,” noted Vlad Biletski.
The Great Centenary Assembly for celebrating the 100th anniversary of Bessarabia’s Union with Romania (1918) will be held in the Great National Assembly Square in Chisinau on March 25, starting at midday.
