Extra-parliamentary parties consider only early elections can help overcome political crisis

Extra-parliamentary parties accuse the government coalition and the Opposition of taking political, not juridical decisions. They call on the AEI and the PCRM not to settle accounts by involving the population, to dissolve the Parliament and allow the voters to make a choice at early legislative elections. Info-Prim Neo asked representatives of extra-parliamentary parties to express their opinions about the Alliance for European Integration's initiative to modify the Constitution by referendum so as to avoid early parliamentary elections and the PCRM's intention to prepare the voters for a referendum whereby to give a vote of no confidence to the government. The leaders of the extra-parliamentary parties are convinced that only early legislative elections can help Moldova overcome the political crisis. [Anatol Petrencu, first vice president of the European Action Movement,] said Moldova should have a permanent president. The early elections will not be more expensive than the referendum proposed by the government coalition. “The situation in our country is permanently unstable as we do not have a president elected normally,” Petrencu said. [The president of the Social Democratic Party Dumitru Braghis] considers the PCRM is almost right when it accuses the AEI of usurping the power in the state. “What's happening looks like usurpation of power. The Alliance does not try to solve the problem. We consider early elections should be held and there should be elected a new Parliament “ Braghis said. [Vladimir Turcan, the president of the United Moldova Party,] reiterated that the modification of the Constitution is not timely when there is a political and economic crisis. He considers that even the AEI is not sure their initiative will be successful. “These modifications cannot have a retroactive effect as we already have juridical consequences: the head of state was not elected, the acting president is obliged to dissolve the Parliament and announce early elections. There is no legal answer to these problems,” he said. [Vitalia Pavlichenko, the leader of the National Liberal Party,] welcomes the AEI's decision, but warns that the referendum should be well prepared. “There will be anyway early elections as a new Parliament will have to be elected under the new Constitution,” she said. The parties that do not form part of the Parliament as well as the parties that constituted the Alliance consider that the PCRM, which is in the Opposition, has the right to do what it considers necessary. At the same time, the first vice president of the MAE Anatol Petrencu says the PCRM will weaken the position of the government coalition by the actions it intends to take. According to Dumitru Braghis, the PCRM's reaction shows there is no cooperation between the parliamentary parties. “What does this action and reaction show? Instead of reaching a compromise, the MPs continue to divide the country and struggle for power. Some want one type of referendum, while others want another kind of referendum.” Vladimir Turcan considers neither the AEI's nor the PCRM's intentions will be successful. “There is great political tension in our country. For the situation to improve, we must abandon the political ambitions and observe the law, the Constitution. I think early elections will take place by autumn and the voters will have the possibility of expressing their positions,” Turcan said. At the suggestion of the European Action Movement, (MAE) the Romanian National Party, the National Liberal Party, the Humanist Party and the Republican People's Party decided to cooperate and set the joint priorities of the extra-parliamentary parties, the MAE informed in a communique. The party's president Veaceslav Untila considers that the extra-parliamentary parties have now three options – to continue working by oneself without having chances of entering the Parliament, to merge with an established party and lose their identity, or to join up with other extra-parliamentary parties and become a democratic alternative to the parliamentary parties.