PNL, PNR to run on MAE's list in elections

The National Liberal Party (PNL) and the National Romanian Party (PNR) will participate in the parliamentary elections on April 5 on the list of the European Action Movement (MAE). The three parties inked a declaration in this respect at a news conference hosted by Info-Prim Neo news agency Monday. “If they asked the pro-European, democratic forces to unite, we have been the most consistent in achieving this wish,” said Anatol Petrencu, MAE's president. “That is why we hope the people will make a difference between the ones basing themselves only on group interests, even strange to Moldova's interests, and the ones, as many as we are, representing the national interest of the native population,” the MAE leader added. PNL leader Vitalia Pavlicenco has said she and her members to go on MAE's list will renounce their positions within the party. The same is to be done by the interim president of PNR, Vasile Dobrogeanu, and his colleagues. MAE has not made the list of his candidates for the future legislature. When asked whom the MAE candidates will turn their weapons against during the campaign, Vitalia Pavlicenco has said it's the Communists Party (PCRM). Referring to their attitude towards the other liberal parties, Pavlicenco has said: “We should show the differences between us and the other political forces considering themselves non-Communist and pro-European, but who do not share the national values as necessary, do not share the need to join NATO and consider it is possible to gain many votes through populist messages,” the PNL leader specified. Anatol Petrencu has said “the present rule can be ousted from power only by creating a 'Pro-European Pole' of the democratic and national forces,” and invites other parties and NGOs to join it. The leaders of the three political parties have announced their shadow cabinet list in which Anatol Petrencu is proposed to be the Moldovan president, Vitalia Pavlicenco – the parliament speaker and Alexandra Can (PNL deputy president, ex-minister for industry) – prime-minister. PNL deputy president Mircea Rusu is proposed to be a vice premier, minister for economy and commerce. Also Victor Catana (ex-minister of interior in the Sturza cabinet) – vice premier, minister of interior, Ion Neagu (first deputy president of MAE) – vice premier for social affairs, Marin Plugaru – minister of finance, Anatol Vidrascu – foreign minister, Veaceslav Ombun (PNL deputy president) – minister of European integration, Eleonora Cercavschi – minister of reintegration, Petru Zolotariov – minister of agriculture, Mihai Severovan (PNL deputy president) – ministeru of constructions, Mariana Taranu (secretary general of MAE) – minister of education, Diana Crudu (PNL deputy president) – minister of ecology, Gheorghe Guzun – minister of health, Vasile Dobrogeanu (PNR's interim president) – minister of social protection, Vasile Iovu – minister of culture, Nicolae Rosca (MAE deputy president) – minister justice, Andrei Covrig (MAE deputy president) – minister of defense, Igor Bercu (MAE deputy president) – SIS director. The three parties state their support for an appeal by the Democratic Forum of Romanians from Moldova (FDRM) to eternalize the memory of poet Grigore Vieru by modifying article 13 of the Constitution to state that the official language is Romanian and by abrogating article 11 of the Constitution on Moldova's neutrality. The three parties will struggle to modify these articles after the parliamentary elections, to re-veer the state towards the Euro-Atlantic structure, to build the second Romanian state “in which the Romanian Language, the Romanians' History, our national values will not be oppressed any longer,” reads a declaration signed by the European Action Movement (MAE), the National Liberal Party (PNL) and the National Romanian Party (PNR). MAE forecasts to gain 15% of votes in the poll on April 5.