The leader of the PCRM Vladimir Voronin said that neither the senior organizations of the EU nor representatives of the Council of Europe reacted earlier so openly and cynically to some of the actions taken by Moldova. In a news conference on May 7, Voronin said the European officials never dared to play the role of ‘the devil’s lawyer’ and, by their statements, they reveal their real goal, IPN reports.
Vladimir Voronin underlined that the intervention of the EU and the Council of Europe means that the European integration was and is perceived by Brussels and Strasbourg not from the angle of the rule of law and the extension of the democratic freedoms and guarantees, but as a geopolitical project. “The purpose of this project is simple – to hinder the partnership between Moldova and Russia at any cost,” said the Communist leader.
Vladimir Voronin also said that Moldova is regarded by Brussels not as an independent state, but as a corrupt political enclave separated from the Transnistrian region and subdued by Romania. “Namely for this reason, any alternative like the possible victory of the current parliamentary opposition is considered a threat to this ‘European integration’,” stated the leader of the PCRM.
He added that two parties with diametrically opposed ideological and political views – the PCRM and PLDM – decided to restore the rules of the democratic game in Moldova and the electoral system that worked for 20 years, to take the Constitutional Court out of the corrupt schemes and to make it create conditions for free and democratic elections.
On May 3, the PLDM and PCRM voted together a set of laws. A number of European officials reacted, urging the political class to abandon the party and personal interests. They recommended the head of state not to promulgate the adopted laws. They referred to the amendments to the Law on the Constitutional Court which enable to fire the constitutional judges by Parliament, the Law on the Government by which the powers of the interim Premier and active Cabinet are extended, the Law on the National Anticorruption Center that was transferred back from Parliament to Government, and the changes to the Election Code whereby the vote on the joint electoral system was abrogated.
