Eggs thrown at Eduard Musuc after he joins Communists

Eggs were thrown at Eduard Musuc at the end of a news conference on Tuesday at which he announced he would join the Communists Party (PCRM), since “it's not timely to create a new center-left party,” Info-Prim Neo reports. Musuc has told Pro TV the author of the attack is Mihai Godoroja, a former parliamentarian. In 2006, Eduard Musuc was taken into police custody in his own apartment, being searched on suspicion of money embezzlement. After the Communist authorities had withdrawn the license of his telecommunications company, in March 2004, Eduard Musuc stated: “There is no law in this country. The law is Vladimir Voronin (Communist leader – e.n.)” Eduard Musuc has told today's news conference dozens of former PSD members applied to join the Communists' ranks. Among them: Chisinau deputy mayor Igor Lupulciuc. Eduard Musuc has also joined the PCRM faction in the Chisinau Municipal Coumncil (CMC). “Now the Communist faction will have 17 members,” he said. In 2006, Eduard Musuc stayed two months in jail. “For my political options,” he has told the news conference. On September 27, 2006, Eduard Musuc stated that his arrest “is part of the Communist government's scenario to crackdown the opposition,” and is because “the European Court of Human Rights was to consider the Megadat.Com case.” The ECHR ruled in Eduard Musuc's favor in the case of his company and now is to establish the amount of damages the Government is to pay him. On Tuesday, Eduard Musuc however hinted economy had nothing to do with politics. The persecutions of the Communist authorities did not expand only over Eduard Musuc, some years ago, but also over his father Ion Musuc. He had not been in Moldova for several years, only to appear a year ago, before Eduard Musuc secured the CMC's communists' votes to be elected as CMC chairman. In 2006, Eduard Musuc stated that the anti-corruption squad had been preparing his arrest in advance “by eavesdropping, persecution, photo and video surveillance, by trying to install tapping bugs in the party's quarters.” “The PSD's enemy number 1 is the Communists Party,” Eduard Musuc told a news conference on February 16, after he had been dismissed on February 13 from the office of CMC chairman. The fact that he was dismissed also by Communists' votes is now explained by Musuc by “the existence of democracy among the PCRM's ranks.” Immediately after the April 5 parliamentary elections Eduard Musuc was ousted from the PSD, as Social-Democratic leader Dumitru Braghis accused him of “working for another party in the race.”