President Vladimir Voronin says Communist Party will have a new programme based on a free economy

The President of Moldova and concurrently the leader of the ruling party, Vladimir Voronin, promises that the Communist Party will have a new programme based on a free economy. “The economy must not have political colour; the only politics that will be admitted is related to the implementation of the mechanisms for distributing the results of this economy depending on the social factor,” the head of state said during a televised programme last weekend. He specified yet that the governing party does not aim to provide the same living standards for the whole population as it was intended in the Soviet period. The draft programme targets certain categories of people, which also deserve a decent living. According to the Communist leader, the current programme of the party adopted in 1994 has been already fulfilled. The major objective of being the leading power in the state was also achieved. “Now that we have acquired experience of being in power and we have potential, we have set other goals as we realised that the party should assume and deal with much more complex problems,” Voronin said. Vladimir Voronin made it clear that since 1994, when the first programme of the party was adopted, and until present the mentality of the Communists has changed. “Such a liberal programme could not be promoted in 1994. Even if it had been formulated then, no one would have adopted it, even I, because it was only three years after the collapse of the USSR and our way of thinking was still under the influence of the life and education obtained during the Socialist regime.” The president said that the draft programme was approved by the Central Committee of the Communist Party and was submitted to the party members for consideration. He voiced hope that once approved, it will not be modified for 30 years on. The document is to be adopted at the next Congress of the Communist party scheduled for March 15, 2008.