Mihai Ghimpu completed his duties as president of the Liberal Party (PL) and handed over the presidency to the party’s first deputy president, his nephew Dorin Chirtoacă. Chirtoacă was elected president of the Liberal Party at the party’s fifth congress held on December 1, 2018. Roman Boțan and Valeriu Munteanu were proposed for the same post, but the first threw his support to Dorin Chirtoacă, while the second withdrew his candidacy. Mihai Ghimpu was elected president of honor of the Liberal Party, IPN reports.
Dorin Chirtoacă approved of Mihai Ghimpu’s presidency of the PL, saying he wouldn’t have been elected mayor of Chisinau if Mihai Ghimpu hadn’t insisted on him running. If there wasn’t Ghimpu, Moldova wouldn’t have witnessed many of the results, such as the signing of the Association Agreement and the liberalization of visas. The PL is obliged to keep its identity before the union ad after it.
Mihai Ghimpu presented the PL’s activity report for the last few years, mentioning the inauguration of the Freedom Cross in Colonița, the Caravan “PL in the NATO and EU Family”, activities staged on the Tricolor’s Day, the election of Dorin Chirtoacă as mayor of Chisinau. The PL also attributes to itself the expansion of the unionist camp up to 30%. “I leave you a party that wasn’t supported by many citizens owing to its unionist view. The union policy is the correct path,” stated the politician, urging to struggle for the union even if the PL will not be a parliamentary party in the future.
The delegates to the congress also voted the party’s electoral program for the parliamentary elections of next February. The PL set as a major political objective the stopping of the expansion of the Plahotniuc-Dodon duo by participation in the formation of a pro-European, anti-oligarchic, anti-Putin and pro-Romanian parliamentary majority so as to restore democracy in Moldova. The Liberals also voted the Statement on Moldova’s Union with Romania in connection with the Great Union Centenary.
