Opposition puts up demands

The three Opposition parliamentary groups – the PL, PLDM and AMN – at the Parliament’s sitting on Tuesday said that they do not recognize the results of the April 5 elections and will not participate in the election of the President of Moldova so that early elections could be held. The Opposition submitted a series of demands to the Communist Party (PCRM), Info-Prim Neo reports. The president of the parliamentary group of the Liberal Party (PL) Mihai Ghimpu said that the PL does not recognize the election outcome, considers the current parliamentary group of the PCRM as illegal and will appeal the decision to validate the elections passed by the Constitutional Court to the European Court of Human Rights. He also said that the Communist government used the April 7 events to compromise the peaceful protests, discredit the Opposition and the civil society and divert the attention of the national and international public opinion from vote rigging. Mihai Godea, vice president of the parliamentary group of the PLDM, said that the human rights began to be violated in 2001, when the PCRM came to power. Since then, they have planned the rigging of the parliamentary elections of 2005 and 2009. “The terror, fear and misinformation are the main instruments used by the PCRM to keep the power,” Mihai Godea said. The AMN MP Victor Osipov said that the Opposition parties presented thousands of proofs that the Communist authorities fixed the April 5 elections. “The present legislature does not represent the people’s will and will be considered illegal at least at the political and moral level,” Osipov said. The demands put forward by the Opposition include: unconditional release of all the persons arrested after the April 7 events and their investigation on the outside; holding of the persons that committed abuses accountable; public refutation of the accusations that the Opposition was involved in an alleged attempted coup; free access to the public radio and television stations for the Opposition parties; dismissal of the administration of the National Public Broadcaster “Teleradio Moldova” and of the Broadcasting Coordination Council; immediate dismissal of the Ministers of the Interior and Information Development, the head of the Security and Information Service, the prosecutor general; creation of a parliamentary commission involving the Opposition, the independent press, the civil society, representatives of the European Union and the Council of Europe that will investigate the April 7 events, etc. “If these demands are not met, the parliamentary group of the PL reserves the right to boycott the activity of the Parliament,” Ghimpu said. Speaker Vladimir Voronin invited the Communist MP Marian Lupu to the microphone to reply to the Opposition. But Lupu did not prepare a speech and lost courage. “Another person will speak in the name of the PCRM group,” Lupu said, when reaching the rostrum. But no one came out. Ultimately, he congratulated all the MPs that entered the Parliament. “Regardless of the political affiliation, we all have a joint task: to represent the country and take decisions beneficial to this country,” Lupu said.