The chairman of the PLDM Vlad Filat regrets the fragmentation of the social basis, especially of the center-right parties, but considers that their party can survive the leaving of some members who decided to join former Prime Minister Iurie Leanca. Similar processes are witnessed by all the important parties of the country. Such statements were made in the program “Forth power” on N4 TV channel, IPN reports.
Vlad Filat considers the defections from the PLDM in connection with Iurie Leanca’s new political project will not be large in number. “The fact that two-three people left does not mean that the party is being dismembered. Two deputy ministers left, but they were replaced by other professionals. We expect more members to leave, especially in Cimislia, where Mister Leanca built the organization on relations of friendship. It is his native district. But we will cope with the situation. We will work more and will prepare for the local elections. The PLDM is an organized party that has branches at all the polling places. Not many parties have such a structure,” stated Vlad Filat.
In this connection, the leader of the PLDM expressed his regret at the fragmentation of the social basis of the center-right parties, but noted that similar processes happen in all the important parties of Moldova, including the PCRM, PL and PDM.
Referring to Iurie Leanca’s defection from the PLDM, Filat said he regrets the way he did it. “I don’t know who advised him to do so. He should have come to the party and provided explanations to us, not through social networking sites or the mass media. He joined the PLDM in February 2009, when the list of candidates for elections was being compiled. The party promoted him and supported him politically. Afterward he said that he does not want to be Prime Minister with a minority government. If he had said that he wanted to, we would have fielded him for premiership for the second attempt too,” he stated.
The Liberal-Democratic leader expressed his skepticism about the chances of Iurie Leanca’s political project. “The funny thing is that the party is being built on Facebook. Such an approach seems unserious to me. You cannot build a party on social networking sites, even if this communication method is important,” he said.
