“Green Alliance” urges parties to create common staff for September 5 referendum

The Ecologist Party “Green Alliance” calls upon the parties that registered to campaign for the September 5 constitutional referendum to constitute a common staff, Info-Prim Neo reports. In a news conference on July 21, the party's chairman Vladimir Braga said the Ecologist Party “Green Alliance” will campaign in favor of the referendum. “In fact, the problem of direct election of the head of state is old, dating from the 1990s, when a number of parties that seemingly wanted to amplify the procedure for electing the head of state, hindered the then President Petru Luchinski from returning to power and amended the Constitution,” Vladimir Braga said. According to the ecologists, if the parliamentary and extra-parliamentary parties manage to overcome their ambitions and create a common staff for the referendum, the plebiscite will be successful. The common staff is to prove that the referendum promotes the national interests, not narrow party interests. “The “Green Alliance” will seek help from the European Green Party. The support offered by a European party is very important given that Moldova depends on foreign donors, especially European ones,” Braga said. The ecologists consider that besides the method of electing the head of state, the government system should also be modified as it is outdated, inefficient and based on Soviet principles. “We are against brainwashing and making the population dull,” said the party's vice chairman Anatolie Prohnitski. He also said that the parties that urge boycotting the referendum promote their own interests or the interests of other states. “Forces that safeguard the interests of imperialist countries try to divide the society. Some of the politicians say they are in Moldova on a trip. We must live in harmony in this country and obey its laws,” Anatolie Prohnitski said. The Central Election Commission registered the Ecologist Party “Green Alliance” as participant in the campaign for the constitutional referendum on July 20.