European Action Movement calls on voters not to admit a ruling coalition’s Chisinau mayor

The “European Action” Movement (EAM) calls on the voters not to admit the communist and Christian-Democrat candidates to the offices in the City Hall, as they are ruling for many years. This appeal was launched by the Party’s leader Anatol Petrencu at a press conference on Thursday, May 31. According to a statement of the Standing Bureau (SB) of the EAM, the future mayor of Chisinau should have an outspoken anticommunist attitude and national orientation, as well as experience in the public administration, especially in Chisinau. Colonel Andrei Covrig, one of the leaders of the EAM, told the news conference that the political convicts from Tiraspol, Andrei Ivantoc and Tudor Petrov-Popa, could be set free in the period from June 2 to 4, an event that several parties will ascribe to themselves in a fight for political capital. According to Covrig, it has been 15 years since the imprisonment of these patriots in Tiraspol, but the leadership of Moldova and the ruling coalition – Communist and People’s Christian Democrat did nothing to set them free. In this context, Covrig announced that the EAM will launch real proposals for the settlement of the Transnistrian conflict in short time. EAM regrets the fact that the suggestion of the civil society of Moldova for the democratic and national parties to support a single candidate has failed. At the same time, the representatives of the party say that the ruling party and its allies encourage the separation of democratic national parties in order to maintain their power and domination during elections. Anatol Petrencu says that for any voter with democratic aspirations it is unconceivable to vote for the representatives of the communists and of the parties which voted for a communist president on April 4, 2005. According to Petrencu, the statement of the EAM was unanimously voted by all the members of Party’s SB.