Vlad Filat: It's cynical to say there is no money for early vote

“It's cynical to say there is no money for the early vote,” the leader of the Liberal Democratic Party (PLDM), Vlad Filat, told a news conference on Wednesday. “The costs amount to 40 million lei at most. If we take away the administration expenses for Condrita, Holercani, the fuel for the yacht and Yamaha and the visit to Karlovy Vary, the sum we get is enough to hold elections right now,” said the PLDM president. Filat has meant the villas, the vessel and vehicle of President Vladimir Voronin, who's made a custom from spending his summer vacation in the Czech town of Karlovy Vary, Info-Prim Neo reports. “In order to have rights and freedoms, the so sterile discussions around the costs are sometimes cynical,” Vlad Filat said when asked about the costs incurred by the possible early elections. After those three opposition parties from the parliament repeatedly stated they wouldn't take part in electing a president, the PCRM (Communists) leaders complain that a new parliamentary vote would be an inadmissible luxury for the country. Vlad Filat has called journalists to reconfirm the position of the PLDM parliamentary faction in the second attempt to elect a president, established for May 28. Two officials run, both proposed by Communist parliamentarians: premier Zinaida Greceanai and ambassador Andrei Neguta. Vlad Filat has said pressure has been made on the members of the PLDM faction to secure the so-called “golden vote”, the Communists fall short of to elect the president. The Liberal-Democratic leader has refrained from giving details, promising to unveil more after the election procedure on Thursday. “The fact that Gabriel Stati is still in jail is also a kind of pressure over some MPs,” Filat said, referring to businessman Gabriel Stati, who waits in jail to be indicted, after being accused of having organized the mass turmoil on April 7. Commenting the PCRM's statement about the possibility of starting a dialogue, Vlad Filat has said “an advisor to Mr. Vladimir Turcan (first deputy speaker – e.n.) gave us a call and said Mr. Turcan was available for negotiations at any time. That's all.” On Tuesday, the Liberal Party announced its MPs would not attend the election of the president. When asked by Info-Prim Neo, the secretary of Moldova Noastra Alliance's faction, Leonid Bujor, has reconfirmed that “the AMN deputies won't participate in electing any candidate proposed by the Communists.”