PNL will support PL’s candidate for Chisinau mayor on condition

The National Liberal Party (PNL) will support Dorin Chirtoaca in the second round of voting if the Liberal Party (PL) apologises for its “aggressive” behaviour in the election campaign and assures the national-liberals that it will not form a coalition with the communist faction in the future Chisinau Municipal Council (CMC). The leader of the party Vitalia Pavlicenco told a news conference on Thursday, June 7, that PNL is open to cooperation with the democratic parties because they want an anticommunist victory in the second round of the elections for Chisinau Mayor. The leadership of PNL says it will make abstraction of the attacks to which it was subjected in the election campaign by PL, but it wants that Dorin Chirtoaca’s team make the first step and ask for support. “The ball is in the court of the Liberal Party, which must prove political maturity, openness, cooperation and a clear political option – to go with PPCD and PCRM or with the democratic parties,” Vitalia Pavlicenco said. According to the vice president of PNL Anatol Taranu, the conditions that will be imposed on PL are not related to national-liberals’ interests only, but to the major interest of the democratic forces in Chisinau municipality: Dorin Chirtoaca must create the democratic pole in the CMC. “We do not ask something for PNL, though it would be a normal thing. It is normal for a political party to ask for some posts in the future administration of the municipality, especially given that we will have a councillor in the CMC, but we won’t do this,” Anatol Taranu said. Mihai Severovan will represent PNL in the future CMC. A press statement issued by PNL to Info-Prim Neo says that the election campaign took place in conditions of antidemocratic, potent and constant pressure on the part of the communist government, being the expression of people’s despair and distrust in the well functioning of the democratic institutions in Moldova. The national-liberals consider that the election results, especially in Chisinau, live up to the expectations of the electorate: Moldova needs new people, with a modern European grounding, not burdened by the past. At the same time, PNL warns not to over-appreciate the success of Dorin Chirtoaca in the first round and considers that the non-communist candidate will not win if all the democratic forces do not make common cause.