PSD members from Cahul, Falesti and Anenii Noi abandon party

Members of the local organizations of the Social Democratic Party (PSD) in Cahul, Falesti and Anenii Noi have announced they leave the party. The PSD leader Dumitru Braghis said that “the acts are staged by Eduard Musuc” (the former secretary general of the party – e.n.), Info-Prim Neo reports. The 77 persons that leave the party argued that they do not agree with Dumitru Braghis’s proposal to ‘lease’ Transnistria to Russia for 30 years. “We consider that the initiative to concede the Transnistrian region to Russia is anticonstitutional and antinational. We do not want to form part of the party that makes statements of this kind public,” says a declaration signed by members of the PSD Organization in Cahul town. “Those that made these statements had been paid and instructed by Eduard Musuc. We received several lists of the kind, but it turned out that few of those included in the lists wrote applications to withdraw from the PSD. Musuc can do what he wants. The PSD becomes a more powerful party and we are glad that those that work with the Communists leave out party,” Dumitru Braghis said. The Social Democratic Party was headed by Eduard Musuc until December 2007, when it merged with the Social Democracy Party led by Dumitru Braghis.  About 500 members of the PSD, including its secretary general Eduard Musuc, left the party, saying that they do not back Dumitru Braghis’s proposal to concede Transnistria to another state. On May 1, the leader of the Communist Party Vladimir Voronin and Eduard Musuc smiled at each other, shook hands and even held each other. Asked by the reporters since when he has been so warm with Voronin, Musuc said: “From today”. But he did not confirm that he would join the Communist Party. “In the near future, we, those that left the PSD, will take a decision about our future steps. It must be a responsible decision as it decides the fate of thousands of colleagues of mine,” Eduard Musuc said.