Sergiu Banari will offer Democratic parties to form anti-Communist coalition

Sergiu Banari, the first independent candidate registered for the April 5 elections, says he will propose that the Democratic parties, except the Christian Democratic People’s Party (PPCD) and the Social Democratic Party (PSD), form an anti-Communist coalition, Info-Prim Neo reports. The coalition will pledge not to cooperate with the Communist Party (PCRM). “A united anti-Communist force should be created in order to win over the red Communist plague that spread in our country,” Banari said at a news conference on Thursday, February 26. The candidate said that next week he will submit proposals for the constitution of the coalition by eight political parties running in elections. “We should offer the voters a document that would make them vote and put their trust in the Democratic political force. The coalition will show the voters which of the parties can prove political will if they come to power and will not ally themselves with the PCRM, which should be removed once and for all from the political arena of Moldova,” Sergiu Banari said. In another connection, the candidate accused the PCRM of involvement in the forging of signatures with the aim of discrediting him. “The Balti City Hall sent a letter to the Central Election Commission (CEC), containing over 100 names with forged signatures of persons that would have demanded that I should not be registered as independent runner in the parliamentary elections. I presume that this letter was written by members of the PCRM,” Banari said. He asked the General Prosecutor’s Office to conduct investigations and identify the persons that wrote the letter and forged the signatures. Banari is confident he will poll the 3% of the vote needed to enter the Parliament. Sergiu Banari was registered as election contender by the CEC on February 25. The Commission established that about 60 of the over 2,000 signatures presented by him were forged. Nonetheless, he had enough signatures to be registered.