PLDM will not participate in electing Moldovan president

The deputies of the Liberal Democratic Party of Moldova (PLDM) will not participate in electing the Moldovan president. The statement belongs to the party’s leader, Vlad Filat. He said at a news conference on Saturday, April 25, that the decision was made in unanimity by the members of the PLDM National Political Council, which ran their activity on the same day, Info-Prim Neo reports. “I have full confidence in my parliamentarian colleagues,” Vlad Filat said, also specifying that the PLDM would participate in the first session of the legislature that would take part on May 5. Filat said that through this political decision, the PLDM reconfirms its previously announced position that the elections of April 5 had been rigged. The Liberal Democratic leader also said he doesn’t agree with the statement of the Moldovan president in office, according to which “after the visits of many European officials to Chisinau, Moldova overcame the political crisis it is in after the events of April 7.” “Not all is clarified,” he specified, mentioning that “the visits of the representatives of the international bodies in Moldova these days are due to the joint and energetic actions of the opposition.” Filat stated that they would also continue in the coming days, including Saturday, when the opposition meets Thomas Hammarberg, the commissioner of the Council of Europe (CoE) for Human Rights. The PLDM president also added that upon the invitation of the international bodies, his colleagues would make trips to many European capitals in the coming days to inform about the situation in Moldova. Filat also added that the resolution regarding the situation in Moldova after the elections that the European Parliament would adopt the next plenary session will comprise sometimes tough recommendations, and this “would categorically influence the relations between Moldova and the EU.” “Unfortunately, neither Voronin, nor all the Communists all together have realized up to now that Romania is a member state of the EU and any attack against it is perceived as the one against the system in general,” Filat stated. According to him, the European officials wonder “how the Chisinau authorities don’t understand that the EU projects in Moldova can be implemented only by means of Romania.” Referring to the fact that, after the visit of Javier Solana, the secretary general of the EU Council, which took place on Friday, April 24, the central authorities accepted that the opposition also was part of the state commission created through a presidential decree in order to elucidate the causes and consequences of the events that took place in Chisinau on April 7 and 8, Vlad Filat said that the opposition would decide alone if it would be or not part of the commission. He mentioned that the representatives of the international bodies and of the free media also must be part of the commission, and the problem of the public broadcasting becomes a problem of principle and a precondition for the media that must be discussed by all parts.