Nicolae Andronic: Elections in Gagauzia were a rehearsal for the rout organised by the government during the current campaign

The leader of the Popular Republican Party (PPR), Nicolae Andronic, says that the elections in Gagauzia were a rehearsal for the rout staged by the government in the current election campaign and the positive assessments of the foreign observers served as encouragement to Voronin’s usurping regime to continue its antidemocratic and anticonstitutional practices. Andronic says that PPR made a chronicle of the frauds committed by the Communist government during the local elections, which points to the abuses to which the ruling party resorted in order to preserve the power and not yield it up in a democratic way. “Now, with the first round of voting over, it is time to draw some conclusions, we and the foreign factors, so as not to allow the communists to commit frauds and compromise the parliamentary elections of 2009 in the same way. Given that the power in Moldova was usurped by the head of state, the elections are determined long before Election Day,” the PPR leader says. According to PPR, some factors from the West inadequately assess the processes in Moldova, where the authorites violate the Constitution and other laws, where there is no justice and the prosecutor’s office fabricates political cases, where the human rights and freedoms are violated at every turn. For these reasons, PPR calls on the USA, the EU member states, the donor countries to acknowledge that the cash injections are used by the current government not for the benefit of the Moldovan people, not for democratic transformations, but to maintain and strengthen the police regime of President Voronin, says the PPR leader, who wants that at least two of the earlier conditions be fulfilled. These are: to return to the practice of 1990-1994, when each political party benefited from by 20 minutes monthly on the national radio and television stations free of charge, and the Opposition had, in such a way, permanent access to the broadcasters, and to eliminate the authorities’ anticonstitutional practice of interfering in justice. If these two conditions are not fulfilled, PPR will have to admit to the impossibility of changing the power in Moldova in a democratic way in 2009, fact that will make it to revise its political fight tactics. At the same time, PPR will have to admit the existence of double standards in the US’ and the EU’s policy towards Moldova, Nicolae Andronic said.