Tudor Pantaru: Time of slogans is out, we count on professionals!

“The times of 'up with', 'down with' slogans is out. It's time to decide whether we count on specialists, on technocrats, on professionals, or on the ones coming with nice words,” stated Thursday, Nov. 13, Tudor Pantaru at a news conference in the quarters of Info-Prim Neo News Agency in Chisinau. Tudor Pantaru runs for the Romanian Social-Democratic Party (PSD) for a seat in the Deputies Chamber in the Romanian Parliament in the elections of November 30, this year. Pantaru's electoral slogan is “Closer to the Country” and it's the quintessence of his electoral offer. “By efforts of legislative creation and exerting the functions of parliamentary control over the enforcement of the law, Tudor Pantaru will manage to bring the Romanians from Moldova and from the diaspora closer to the Country and the Country closer to their needs,” reads a press release of the nominee. Referring to the issue of granting Romanian citizenship, Tudor Pantaru says he's got a draft law to maximumly simplify the procedures of re-gaining the Romanian citizenship by Moldovan citizens. He called “humiliation of the Basarabians” the high costs and long periods necessary for obtain the Romanian citizenship. “I consider it's necessary to replace the institution of re-acquiring the citizenship through the institution of re-establishing the citizenship. These citizens shall receive the Romanian passport on the spot, just producing their birth certificates,” the candidate has said. He also stands up for re-launching the Moldo-Romanian dialogue at all levels, “since it is stumbling now.” He calls on Moldovan radios and TV stations to hold public debates attended by the other nominees so that the citizens are fully and objectively informed about the electoral bids of the nominees and make a conscientious choice. Tudor Pantaru will launch his electoral offer on November 19, 2008, at 1 p.m. In Capitolis Lux restaurant (Chisinau, Mitropolit Varlaam str., 78). Tudor Pantaru was the chairman of the Juridical Committee from 1990 to 1992 in the Chisinau Parliament, which voted for the independence. From 2004 to present he is the chairman of the Special Chamber of the Supreme Court of Kosovo, concomitantly from 2002 to present – an international judge at the Constitutional Court in Bosnia and Herzegovina. For the first time after the November elections, the Romanian Parliament will have four deputies and two senators elected by the Romanian residing outside that country. Romania's three largest parties nominated candidates for the representative of East Europe and Asia, the zone which includes the Republic of Moldova: the Liberal Democratic Party fielded Eugen Tomac, presidential advisor for the diaspora; the Social Democratic Party nominated Tudor Pantaru, Moldova's first ambassador to the UN; and the National Liberal nominee is Nicolae Dabija, a writer from Moldova.