PPCD members go eulogistic about party leaders

“Due to the care of our party leaders about the mayors who won the elections on the lists of the People’s Christian Democratic Party (PPCD), I have managed to solve many problems in my village,” Claudia Bejenaru, the mayor of Nicolaieuca village of Orhei district, stated at a news conference in Chisinau. She came accompanied by president of the Association of the Christian Democratic Mayors and Councilors, Tudor Coslet, mayor of Ulmu village, Ialoveni, Nicolae Tudoreanu, mayor of Festelita, Stefan Voda, and deputy president of Hancesti district Igor Turcanu, Info-Prim Neo reports. They enumerated projects and sums spent on building or repairing different social-cultural objects in the localities they head, insisting each time upon the fact that their achievements were possible only due to the help received from the Christian Democratic parliamentarians. However, asked by journalists to give details, the Christian Democratic mayors said that the concrete help received from the party consisted in the fact that they have been trained how to develop projects to obtain funds from the government or from the foreign donors. Tudor Coslet agreed that the mayor offices headed by Christian Democratic mayors get money from the government easier due to the “good cooperation between the PPCD with the present governance.” Using the European funds for infrastructure was also wished to be attributed by the local administrators to the parliamentary faction of the PPCD. “They helped us get visas to leave for Romania.” This money of the EU is offered to Romanian applicants, who offer a part of their funds for projects in Moldova. In the future parliament, the Christian Democrats say they will make coalitions with anyone sharing their doctrine. On April 4, 2005, the Christian Democratic deputies shocked the public, voting to elect Communist leader Vladimir Voronin as the president of the country.