Lib-Dems school Glodeni police on law matters

Only the Glodeni police tried to hinder the citizens meetings called by the Liberal-Democrats to support the signing of the Convention on minor frontier traffic, last Sunday, May 11. Two days ago, the Liberal-Democratic Party (PLDM) organized meetings in a range of raion centers along the Prut river and in the town of Straseni, and collected 5,700 signatures of citizens asking the Government to sign the Convention allowing one million Moldovans to enter Romania without visas, Info-Prim Neo reports. The PLDM leader, Vlad Filat, told a news conference on Tuesday, May 13 , that during an hour the Glodeni police had made use of force and banned holding the meeting. Meanwhile PLDM members familiarized the policemen with the provisions of the new law on meetings. After the training , “the police even presented apologies and allowed the manifestation,” Filat says. Anyway, the PLDM leader was amazed at “the excessive presence” of employees of intelligence services at the events organized by his party and says he was told by fellow members from territories that the law-enforcing bodies would already have called participants in meetings to explain the statements they made. Asked by Info-Prim Neo to comment on the alleged menaces of the President that the president of Ungheni district could get to jail, if he tries to dismantle the barbed wire along the Prut , Vlad Filat has opined that “unfortunately in Moldova people get to jail for reasons much simpler.” The politician suggests that the decision of the Ungheni district council should rather be understood as a stance taking. The issued of the barbed wire along the border can be solved by the Parliament, but it can happen “only after the power is taken by parties which understand, not only declare European values and integration,” Filat said. PLDM plans to end the drive of collecting signatures for the minor traffic on May 25, at a citizens assembly in Chisinau, then they will hand the lists over to the Government. After Romania recently offered Moldova to sign the European Convention on the minor frontier traffic, the Chisinau government conditioned the signing through the synchronization of the signing of the Basic Treaty and of the Border Demarcation Treaty with Romania. This Convention allows the residents near the EU border to enter the Romanian territory only with permits valid 5 years.