Vladimir Voronin praises opposition

Vladimir Voronin, the leader of the Communists Party, finds that the Moldovan opposition has changed 180 degrees in this ongoing campaign. The PCRM's political opponents started to talk more about independence and the need for Moldova's territorial unification, Voronin told a news conference on Wednesday, July 15. He has specified “this is a consequence of the pedagogical efforts made namely by the PCRM,” Info-Prim Neo reports. “They (opposition parties) nervously react to the accusations of xenophobia, try to attract the ethnic minorities. As an acting president, I am satisfied that the emotional call “Let's defend our Motherland!”, some opposition parties with authority answered with a similar call. This inspires us that, during the post-election period, Moldova will avoid a repetition of the April 7 events,” Vladimir Voronin said. The PCRM leader declared himself surprised that the opposition parties, in the ongoing race, do not accuse the government of possibly rigging the elections, while such accusations were frequent in the previous campaign. Vladimir Voronin has found that two political forces take shape in the country. “The PCRM is on one side, consistently observing principles of opening to integration in the interaction with the European Union and with the CIS. On the other hand, there are four radical right-wing forces, which do not see in the state a defender of the interests of the majority, but only “a night watchman.” There is nothing to do, this is the logic of Liberalism. And our political parties seek to follow it as loyally as possible,” Voronin said. “The ones considering useless the resistance opposed by all the state institutions to the economic crisis and seeing their ideal in the present situation in Ukraine, have but to elect the parties led by Ghimpu, Lupu, Filat or Urecheanu,” stated the Communist leader Vladimir Voronin says, that after the July 29 elections, namely the Communist Party rests with the initiative of the dialogue for a parliamentary consensus and one will insist on several principles here. Among those, the stabilization of the relations between Moldova and Romania. “We consider that the end of this negotiations should be signing the border treaty and the basic political treaty by our countries,” Voronin said. Referring to the Transnistrian area, he goes on standing for the country's integration by granting a special status to Transnistria. He insists on strengthening neutrality and total demilitarization of the country. Preserving and strengthening Moldova's partnership with Russia, and stepping up Moldova's efforts to develop the multilateral cooperation within the CIS are another principle to reach the parliamentary consensus. When asked by journalists whom he wants to defend the motherland from (slogans of the PCRM), Voronin has said “the motherland must be defended from extremists.” The PCRM leader rejected the allegations that the police should be involved in campaigning, as stated by the PCRM's opponents. “These are lies that you (journalists – e.n.) create and spread out to earn a living,” Voronin said.