“I do not ask for you vote. I lend a hand for taking together the country out of captivity and for returning it to the people. This is a demarcation line that separates the darkness from light.” This was the message that the candidate nominated for premiership Ion Sturza was to deliver in Parliament in the January 4 special sitting that didn’t take place because the quorum was not present. On January 8, Sturza published the speech he intended to give in Parliament on a social networking site, IPN reports.
“It would be a mistake to consider that only the rulers are to blame. First of all, we, the citizens, are to blame because we allowed something like this to happen, as we permitted the famine in 1947 and the deportation of the elite of our nation in the 1950s. Many consider the change will come from outside. This is a mistaken approach! The changes come neither from where the sun is rising nor from where it is setting. We created the problems and we will solve them ourselves,” the ex-candidate says in his speech.
Ion Sturza expressed his conviction that in the future all those who apply for public posts will have to sign an own responsibility integrity statement, as the Cabinet proposed by him did, and to go through the purgatory of civil society.
He closed his speech by saying that “the people are confused. A vicious circle formed and all the state services are non-functional. The prosecution service does not work, the National Anticorruption Center does nothing, the statistical data are irrelevant and cannot be used, while the notary services are controlled by a clan that fleeces the elderly people, especially those who make documents. The lawyers are intermediaries in acts of bribery, while the courts of law are ‘auction’ places – who gives more. The audit services are also inappropriate. You can bank on nothing if you want to do something sustainable, in conditions of justness”.
The January 4 special sitting of Parliament, where the MPs were to consider giving a vote of confidence to the Sturza Government, was attended by only 47 of the 101 MPs. The quorum was not present and the meeting thus didn’t take place.
