The savior and stability – last electoral debates

[The savior] “We do not need changes of personages, but a change of system. Only the people that have no connection with the Communists and do not receive orders and medals from them can do it,” the vice president of the Liberal Democratic Party (PLDM) Alexandru Tanase said during electoral debates on the radio station “Vocea Basarabiei”, after the representative of the Democratic Party (PD) Igor Klipii prophesied that the party’s president Marian Lupu would become the President of Moldova. The debates themed “Significance of the Communists Party’s Slogan “Let’s Defend our Country!”” in the current electoral campaign were also attended by Veaceslav Untila of the Moldova Noastra Alliance Party (AMN), Dorin Chirtoaca of the Liberal Party (PL) and Ghenadie Vaculovschi of the Christian Democratic People’s Party (PPCD). After the electoral contenders from the Opposition, except the representative of the PPCD, said that the slogan is designed to divide the society into “ours” and “yours”, into Moldovans and other-language speakers, into good people and bad people, that the Communists try to destabilize the situation in the country and cause chaos and disorder through this slogan, Igor Klipii said that the PD’s position is expressed in the video ad which says that “Homeland does not mean Party”, that the Opposition parties should reach a consensus and solve together three major problems – the economic crisis, the identification of the persons to blame for the April 7 events and the election of the head of state, stressing that Marian Lupu is the best candidate for this post. Alexandru Tanase asked Klipii if nor Lupu was the one who accused the Opposition and the children that came to peaceful protests of attempt to overthrow the government, who was among the top state authorities and is to blame for the fact that the government was obliged by the ECHR to pay 18,000 euros in damages and that legal action was taken by order while he had been Speaker of Parliament and the Moldovan people were tortured and maltreated, who always told the parliamentary Opposition to shut up. Tanase considers that a party leader cannot suddenly change his options and in only three weeks have an entirely different position than when he was in the Communists’ camp. “Will Lupu dare to hold Voronin accountable for his multiple crimes and abuses?” lawyer Alexandru Tanase asked rhetorically, adding that “Lupu comes to take power” after so many years of attempts to change something. Referring to the PPCD, Tanase said that this party destroyed the political class and accused one and all of the disaster in the economic, political and social spheres of Moldova, forgetting that the PPCD is the party that served the longest period in the Parliament and that Iurie Rosca had been Speaker of Parliament two times, while now he administers the police. For his part, the PL vice president Dorin Chirtoaca said that Moldova has already seen cases similar to Lupu’s. In 1989, Mircea Snegur left the Communist Party and immediately became the leader of a democratic movement. He made Moldova become part of the Commonwealth of Independent States, leading it to degradation. The second Communist that changed overnight into Democrat was Petru Lucinschi. In 2001 yet, a veritable Communist came to power. “Now, they want to make a democratic change with the help of the second person from the PCRM, which seems impossible to me,” said Dorin Chirtoaca, adding that only the three Opposition parties showed that they really want democracy for Moldova. Igor Klipii replied that when Marian Lupu joined the PD, he assumed responsibility for everything – the past and the present. As regards the April 7 events, Klipii believes that Rosca has all the levers in hand to find the persons responsible for the devastation of the state institutions and those that killed and tortured innocent young people. “Lupu had four years to create an image. We, the MPs, have been repeatedly reprimanded by Lupu, who closed our microphones and did not hear our proposals. Lupu has voted for a Communist President twice,” said the vice president of the AMN Veaceslav Untila. He considers that Lupu is not the savior of the nation. He said that for the first time three Liberal parties taught a civic unity lesson that impressed Europe. [Stability] The representatives of political parties, except the PPCD, are convinced that the electoral slogan of the Communists Party “Let’s Defend our Country!” is aimed at dividing the society into “ours” and “yours”, into Moldovans and other-language speakers, into good people and bad people, into mothers and children. Only Ghenadie Vaculovschi of the PPCD said that it is up to the Communists to decide on their slogan. Dorin Chirtoaca considers that this slogan seems to call to war. “The Communists do not defend the country, but the property accumulated by exploiting the peasants,” said Chirtoaca, who resigned as mayor of Chisinau for the period of the electoral campaign. According to him, the Communists are to blame for the devastation of the state buildings, who are also the main organizers. The proofs show that the buildings were guarded by carabineers, not by equipped police officers. A lieutenant of the Security and Information Service, Andrei Morari, was filmed in the devastated building through an open window how he was drinking champagne, being among the first that entered the building. Chirtoaca also said that Vladimir Turcanu gave instructions to the young people who were to hoist the flags of the European Union and Romania. He stressed that the events that followed April 7 are a crime against the own people as there was used torture and innocent young men were beaten to death. “Voronin and his acolytes must answer for everything that happened during eight years. The state is not Voronin and his property. We, the citizens of Moldova are the state,” Dorin Chirtoaca said. Veaceslav Untila described the Communists as good specialists in using dirty technologies. “The Communists polarized the society, made the people hysterical so that we confronted the ethnic groups,” Untila said, adding that the country’s independence was obtained by those who are now accused of betraying the Country by the Communists, who ran away then and set fire to the Declaration of Independence today. Alexandru Tanase said that the Communists’ slogan should be “Let’s Defend our Business!”. He stressed that the country should be protected, but from Communists, opportunists and liars. Referring to the government’s accusations that the Opposition staged a coup on April 7, the vice president of the PLDM said that the young people came out to protest peacefully against the misery and lack of a future at home. The course of events changed when the government engaged national Bolsheviks, komsomolists and representatives of the New Generation of the PPCD, criminals, police officers and employees of the Information and Security Service. “In a normal state, the government would ask not who took the people out, but who made them protest,” Tanase said. “The Democratic Party was among the first to say who the Country should be protected from,” said Igor Klipii. He considers that this slogan is designed to make the society divided. “In a stable country where the law and the people’s interests are respected, such a slogan would not be popular with the voters.” Ghenadie Vaculovschi did not comment on the contradictory slogan of the Communists, saying that he regrets the political crisis that divided the politicians into two camps where there is no dialogue. “The time will show that certain persons will remain outside politics,” said the leader of the PPCD’s magnificent seven. According to a survey carried out by the Association of Sociologists and Demographers of Moldova, five parties would enter the future Parliament: the PCRM with 43 seats of MP, the PL with 19 seats, the PLDM with 18 seats, the AMN with 11 seats and the PD with 10 seats. The PPCD would not have representatives in the Parliament, the poll shows.