MAE proposes parties to sign pact against corruption

The European Action Movement (MAE) proposes Moldovan parties to sign a “National Pact against Corruption.” On Thursday, March 5, at a news conference hosted by Info-Prim Neo, the MAE specified it made this offer to all the parties except for the Communists (PCRM), the Christian Democrats (PPCD), the Social-Democrats (PSD) and the Centrist Union (UCM), “that lost any mark of credibility.” The MAE believes that the PSD and the UCM are the most likely to ally with the Communists and they have common views with the latter. The MAE sets a deadline till March 10 to the parties willing to sign this act. Through this commitment, the signing parties will seek, in the first six months after the elections, to adopt the necessary laws to drastically diminish corruption in Moldova. The pact contains 15 commitments and the first one is: restructuring the anti-corruption institutions and forming a single national direction against corruption. The MAE also wants to ensure maximum transparency through law as to the dignitaries’ estates, as well as to investigate the way privatizations have been made for the last 18 years. Point 6 of the document refers to unconditional execution of the decisions of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) within the shortest time possibly, opening inquiries against the judges who were guilty of issuing decisions that led to condemning Moldova and recovering the money paid by the state from them. Referring to the last conviction of Moldova by the ECHR in the Duca case, the second candidate on the MAE list, Vitalia Pavlicenco, stated: “In March, 2007, I have presented a statement in the Parliament, alerting upon this case and I said that Moldova would lose another resounding case in the ECHR. It is obvious I was right two years ago. It is a new proof of the fact that the judiciary in Moldova doesn’t work and it doesn’t judge to the citizens’ interest.” In its decision about Duca’s case, the ECHR declares itself as mind-striking taken aback by the way the Supreme Court of Justice has instrumented this case. In another context, MAE president Anatol Petrencu stated he would lodge complaints with the police after policemen arrested two MAE members who distributed invitations to a concert, on Wednesday, March 4. After MAE members intervened, those two were freed. The MAE invites on Saturday to a concert in the Great National Assembly Square in which Veronica, London, Oktavyan, Chocolate and Voltaj will give performances. It starts at 18.00 o’clock.