“The President elected by the people must be free when taking over and must remain free throughout the term. This should not become involved in a political project and should be a really institutional person, an authentic mediator who would represent all the people and would not divide them according to geopolitical criteria and to the spoken language,” said the ex-president of Gas Natural Fenosa Silvia Radu, who is now Spain’s Honorific Consul in the Republic of Moldova. In a news conference at IPN, she announced that she will run independently for the presidency.
Silvia Radu noted that Moldova needs a visionary President able to initiate the real de-politicization of the state institutions and to support their real reformation. The Head of State who will modernize Moldova must be a person with modern, pro-European views who will realize the changes and will be able to implement development and successful models from all over the world.
“Confidence in the political class is very low as the people are disappointed in the politicians. The parties continue to struggle between them for interests that have nothing to do with the country’s interests. On October 30, the people will choose their President themselves, after a long period when this had been elected by Parliament, but what the people are offered today is not to change something after these elections. I saw the list of candidates who will run in the elections. I know personally some of them and consider them professionals. But practically all of them come directly or indirectly from a political class that the people do not trust as this showed what it can do and, especially, what it cannot do,” stated Silvia Radu.
She noted that the parties of which the candidates for the presidency form part or formed part make most of these vulnerable. “We witness the same game of interests that kept the country in an impasse for so long. My question is thus: what value and weight does the direct vote have if the people must choose the President from among the same politicians with whose work they are not satisfied?” asked the former President of Gas Natural Fenosa.
Silvia Radu said she does not believe that the current political class can replace itself and she does not see will and interest in this. She also does not believe in the new parties created by old people. The election of a Head of State from among the candidates fielded by the existent parties means that the future President will belong to group interests or, worse, will represent the political interests of another country.
