Only clientele is on AMN's list: editor

Vasile Grozavu has worked as a journalist and maintains that there is only clientele on the Moldova Noastra Alliance's (AMN) list for the parliament, but the party rejects the claim, Info-Prim Neo reports. Vasile Grozavu, a former deputy editor-in-chief of newspaper Capitala, Thursday told a news conference the AMN's list was of “anonymous people, of people verified by the Court of Accounts, of controversial businessmen.” “Many of them hope to get a seat in the Parliament to enjoy the parliamentary immunity and to become influential politically and economically,” says Grozavu. The journalist says he is aware of all those details not from little birds. Vasile Grozavu has complained he had worked for three years “as a non-remunerated councilor” of AMN leader Serafim Urecheanu, during which period he was kept by his wife. The journalist reproaches Urecheanu of having violated his copyrights by inserting articles from Capitala in the latter's book. Grozavu says he will sue the AMN leader and ask for 500,000 euros in damages, and he will is the money to publish two books. The journalist has also spoken about other non-Communist parties on the lists of which there allegedly would be “persons having compromised reforms and favored corruption.” Instead he praised PCRM leader Vladimir Voronin, who allegedly would have “continued the reforms started by Mircea Snegur (Moldova's first president -e.n.)”, and PPCD leader Iurie Rosca who “supported Snegur.” Grozavu is indignant that the AMN did not include Mircea Snegur into its list. AMN spokesman Victor Osipov says Vasile Grozavu's statements “have no relation with reality.” Osipov said at a news conference that Vasile Grozavu has never been an AMN member, and his self-enthroning as a political advisor of the AMN leader is absolutely false. Victor Osipov has said Vasile Grozavu is an extremely controversial character, who kept going about the AMN asking for money from Serafim Urecheanu, which he seemingly has not got. “His appraisals for the PCRM and the PPCD explain everything,” said the AMN spokesman.