Two political leaders blame each other

The Democratic-Christian Popular Party (PPCD) accuses the Democratic Liberal Party (PLDM) of luring local councillors by corruption and asks law-enforcement bodies to check up the latter one’s funding sources. At the same time, the PLDM accuses the PPCD of betraying the citizens’ interests and maintains the Christian-Democrats’ blames are liable to the Penal Code. The PPCD deputy president, Stefan Secareanu, stated at the Parliament’s Thursday sitting, on February 28, that the PLDM, immediately after the local elections of June 2007, had started to attract the local dignitaries of other parties to its side, and the money paid by the PLDM served as motivation. He has mentioned the recent decision of some former Christian-Democrats from Telenesti who announced they had left the party. Although they style themselves as independent, everybody knows that move was plotted by these „gangsters of transition,” he said. Secareanu has also said he notices journalists being massively corrupted by Vlad Filat for the last months. An impressive number of media have turned into means promoting Filat. The scope of the phenomenon is so wide, the people have baptised it „the filatisation of the press.” The corruption of those journalists menaces the freedom of expression and distorts the public opinion concerning the true face of some politicians, he said. Never ever the momentum and speed of corrupting the local structures of parties and the media have known such proportions, the MP has said, mentioning that Filat is known as “a hero of numerous corruption scandals linked to dubious privatisations of planes and real estate, cigarettes smuggling etc.” He has demanded the state law-enforcing bodies to verify the financing sources of Filat’s party and to take the due measures to curb, if needed, the invasion of dirty money in politics, on the eve of the parliamentary elections. Secăreanu says his party wants to know „if the respective unlimited funds come from abroad, from the local mob, or from the Transnistrian separatists.” In his turn, Filat has told media the statements were made by “an irresponsible party with absolutely irresponsible leaders.” Those are grave assertions, not supported by evidence, absolutely necessary in this case, he said. Filat says the attempt to make the PLDM responsible for the PPCD’s problems in territories is mistaken, because the decision belongs to citizens free to make decisions. He has stated his party has received no application of adherence from those citizens. Filat says he will carefully study that statement, containing things liable to the Penal Code and will ask for taking the due measures. Vlad Filat vows he’ll come up with a statement at the Parliament’s Friday sitting to establish the PLDM’s exact position as to the ungrounded insinuations brought about by the PPCD.