MAE says four of its members were detained by order of PCRM

The European Action Movement (MAE) has said that four members of the party were detained on July 13 without reason and interrogated until midnight at the Buiucani Police Commissariat. They were placing election posters on a specially allotted place, the MAE says in a communiqué, quoted by Info-Prim Neo. According to the MAE, the police were called to the place by a group of individuals wearing the symbols of the PCRM, who wanted to intimidate the young members of the MAE that were attaching the party’s posters with the slogan “Down with the Communism!”. “The representatives of the MAE were putting campaign posters of the party on a specially designed place on Alba Iulia Street in Buiucani district of Chisinau. At that moment, the billboard was fully covered with election posters of the PCRM. But the law says that every election contender can use only 10% of the available space,” the party says. “The MAE publicly condemns the abusive practices, intimidations and threats used by the representatives of the PCRM in the current electoral campaign,” the communiqué says. Earlier, a sympathizer of the PLDM was stabbed. This fact points to a possible collusion between the law enforcement bodies and the ruling party, the MAE says. The party calls on the Moldovan young people and the parents to go to the polls and choose democracy instead of Vladimir Voronin’s dictatorship. Contacted by Info-Prim Neo, the head of the Interior Ministry’s press service Ala Meleca confirmed that the MAE members had been detained. She said that a report was written against one of them over intentional destruction and deterioration of election posters. The man was fined 600 lei. “The fine has not been yet disputed,” Meleca said. At the same time, Ala Meleca denied any involvement of the police in the electoral process. “The Interior Ministry does not get involved in the electoral campaign. We react to every appeal by the people,” she said, stressing that the PCRM and the police do not act in conspiracy.