The Communist Reformist Party of Moldova, which has the same abbreviation as the Communist Party – PCRM – has chosen its chairman. Ruslan Popa was voted in at the party’s constitution congress on May 3. The delegates also elected the members of the Executive Committee and the Central Revision Commission, the emblem, statutes and program of the party, IPN reports.
The Communist Reformist Party is a left-wing party that supports the fundamental principles of contemporary communism. The chairman-elect Ruslan Popa said the party appeared in the appropriate time and place. This day will influence the future election campaigns and will remove the monopoly on the left ideological view promoted in Moldova. “I have the pleasure to tell you that this is the party that you can name yours,” he stated.
The members of the Executive Committee criticized the current government and the Communist Party that is in the opposition. According to them, the lack of trust in the communist policy is due to the frauds and acts of corruption committed while the party headed by Vladimir Voronin managed the country. The new PCRM aims to reduce the number of economic inspection bodies so as to create a simple and transparent economic system. It pledges to increase the salaries and pensions, to create new jobs, and to improve access to medical services based on health policy.
Executive Committee member Elizaveta Moscalciuc said the state does not protect the people as the Constitution provides. The education system is not accessible to everyone and is corrupt, while the young people who graduate from universities prefer to go abroad to work because they don’t have workplaces at home. The human resources must be developed and greater support should be offered to the socially deprived groups, including pensioners and families without a place to stay, and to young specialists, especially from the field of science.
Ruslan Popa also referred to the territorial integrity of Moldova, saying all the problems are due to the lack of communication between the Moldovan authorities and the residents of the Transnistrian region.
The Communist Reformist Party of Moldova kept the Communist symbols from the Soviet period. In the constitution congress, there was played the national anthem of Moldova and the anthem of the Soviet Union.
