Representatives of the National Resistance Movement ACUM protested again in front of the Parliament Building. The protesters tried to enter the Parliament Building by force, but were stopped by the police. These requested that the MPs should fulfil the demands stipulated in the resolution adapted on the protest that was mounted in central Chisinau on July 1. They chanted such slogans as “Down with dictatorship”, “We are the people”, “We will not give up”, “Plahotniuc leave the country” and “Nastase is the mayor”, IPN reports.
In the protest, the participants asked that the MPs should fulfil the demands specified in the resolution adopted by the National Resistance Movement ACUM on July 1, 2018, including to validate the mayoral elections held in Chisinau, to annul the mixed electoral system ad to hold accountable the judges who decided to invalidate the elections in Chisinau.
A police cordon was formed between the protesters and the Parliament Building. According to the organizers, these do not ensure security, but, on the country, prevent the access of the press. “The police restricted the access of the press so that this didn’t cover the protests. We demand to implement the people’s resolution of July 1 and annul the mixed Plahotniuc-Dodon vote, to dismiss the judges who invalidated the Chisinau elections, to validate the elections, to investigate the banking fraud and to recover the stolen funds. We demand that they should immediately start to implement the people’s resolution. The current regime is trying to subdue the mayors and the people,” stated Andrei Nastase, the leader of the PPPDA.
Besides the three demands adopted on July 1, the protesters asked to fulfil the conditions stipulated in the resolution adopted by the European Parliament after the elections in Chisinau were nullified. “Our security is important. The police here do not ensure security. Do not push the people, especially the elderly one. Do not use violence as we will suffer. Dictatorship will not bypass you. Each citizen will be affected. We should be more. They now use the institutions, our money. We resist. We do not give up. Down with the dictator,” stated the PAS leader Maia Sandu.
On the event’s page in social media, 230 persons said they will take part, while over 700 expressed interest in taking part. The protest goes on. The participants in the permanent demonstration Occupy Guguta, staged in the Public Garden “Stephan the Great”, swept the stairs of the Parliament’s Building, ‘brushing’ thus dictatorship.
