PDM leader seeks no key position in top leadership-to-be

The Democratic Party (PDM) leader claims no key office in the top leadership-to-be. Dumitru Diacov told a news conference Tuesday that his party “is ready to yield the position of the country president and to vote for the person designated by a possible coalition,” Info-Prim Neo reports. Moldova's president should not be a member of a political party, the PDM leader insisted. Speaking on the possible structure and members of the cabinet-to-be, Diacov has said Oleg Serebrian, the first deputy president of the PDM, will be proposed as first deputy premier responsible for foreign policy and European integration, and PDM deputy president Valentina Buliga will be proposed to be responsible for the social sector. PDM will put up Valeriu Bulgari for premier. He was a minister for agriculture earlier, and in the Sangheli cabinet – a deputy prime minister. Now he is the president of the Farmers Association. “The party has demonstrated it does seek for competent people willing to assume responsibility,” Dumitru Diacov said, adding that Bulgari is the most adequate person for that office, since Moldova has an agriculture-based economy. “We have people for all the positions, and even 2-3 people for some offices,” Diacov added. According to the PDM leaders, the Communists Party will not be a majority party any longer, so the future parliament majority will have to be formed by a coalition. “The right-wing parties may gain a maximum of 25% - 30% in the April elections, and the future majority will not be able to set up without the PDM, which is a political center,” Diacov said. The 5 April poll will yield a substantial change. “The image of a country ruled by a party with the sickle and hammer, plus an unsettled conflict cannot be good,” said Oazu Nantoi, a deputy president of the PD. He adds corruption is also a problem of Moldova. “Nobody else but the president of the country (Vladimir Voronin – e.n.) recognized he cannot pick a non-corruption functionary without resorting to the polygraph,” Nantoi said.