The European People’s Platform of Moldova (PPEM) was founded in the party’s first congress on July 26. MP Iurie Leanca was chosen as chairman of the party, IPN reports.
The delegates to the first congress of the PPEM unanimously voted for constituting the new political organization. These had to choose between three candidates for the party’s leadership: the leader of the initiative group for creating the PPEM Iurie Leanca; head of the party’s Chisinau Local Organization Oazu Nantoi, and mayor of Ochiul Alb village of Drochia district Tudor Sontu. Iurie Leanca was elected by a majority of votes.
Leanca said the PPEM appeared as a result of the huge betrayal committed by so-called pro-European parties that stole the people’s votes after the November 2014 parliamentary elections and pushed the country towards an unprecedented crisis. “The European People’s Platform of Moldova emerged out of an acute need to modernize the political class and out of the people’s need to see politics for the people, not only business in politics. Our project appeared not as an organization planned beforehand, but as a body that needs to fill a gap on the political arena, where the people are now practically not represented by the politicians for whom they voted,” he stated.
The congress also chose Eugen Carpov as first deputy chairman of the PPEM. “I have a special feeling of attachment to the team – the initiative group of the PPEM. From a team we are turning into a family. We want to become an alternative force and to bring hope into the homes of the Moldovans with a pro-European view who feel abandoned,” he said.
The party’s political program includes 12 politics and reforms in 12 key areas. Among its goals are to establish the rule of law in Moldova, to change the public administration system, to develop civil society and to ensure permanent public control on governance.
