Young candidates on MAE's list urge civil society and all parties to take young people seriously

The young people running on the list of the social-political European Action Movement (MAE) urge the civil society and all political parties to take seriously the young people and not to treat them only for electoral purposes. At a news conference on Friday, February 20, at Info-Prim Neo News Agency, 5 young people from the MAE's list launched a statement, saying that MAE is the only party which came to support young people, even if many political parties have made statements in this sense in recent years. According to the statement, 27 persons (1/3) of those 103 candidates on the MAE's list are up to 28 years old, and 31 persons are between 28 and 50 years old. Three young people are found among those 10 candidates: Diana Crudu (8th place), Mariana Taranu (9th place) and Veaceslav Ombun (10th place). Four persons are among the first 20. The list is displaying non-discrimination, when it is considered by gender – 73 are men and 30 are women. There are 5 women among the first 10 and there are 8 women among the first 20. Three of the first 5 candidates are women, the statement reads. “If we attentively analyze the lists of AMN, PL, PLDM and PDM, we remember the playwright’s saying: It's also we in new times,” Diana Crudu stated. “We have been accused by media of serious organizational problems namely in terms of too many young people on our list. Let us wait for the natural death of those who have taken roots to governing or in front of political parties? They, as you know, don’t leave, but with the legs onward. Or shall we accept the situation when, because of naphthalene, political fossils come out from a young politician’s hump?” the young woman asked. A spokeswoman for the MAE, and a young woman of the party’s list, Dina Ivanova, has said that the young people included on the MAE's list are competent and active and they have not been selected accidentally. “The young people on the MAE's list are not those who only wear flags and make flash mobs, but they are young people treated with confidence and respect, and they must be prepared to become our young political class,” Dina said. The MAE urges all political parties to take the youth seriously, not to treat them as file and rank in elections. The MAE's youths propose the young candidates for the Parliament from the lists of other Liberal and Democratic parties to organize a round table and to invite media to discuss about their views about the future of Moldova.