The week stared with a protest mounted in front of the Constitutional Court by the Party of Action and Solidarity. The people said they came to support and defend the honest constitutional judges and not to allow Boris Lupașco, who was voted in as a replacement for Domnica Manole by the Socialist and For Moldova MPs, to enter the institution. The protesters noted they are ready to defend the Court as long as necessary and chanted “We will not give up!”, “Dodon in jail!”, “Snap elections!”, IPN reports.
Acting president of the PAS, MP Igor Grosu, said that this week is important as the bandits who last Friday orchestrated and attempted a coup on the Constitution and the Constructional Court can try to do the same. “We do not have the right to risk during this week as they are desperate and scared,” said the MP, noting they are afraid of people, but are not afraid of prosecutors. He also said that they do not accept the invitation to dialogue issued to Igor Dodon as they do not have what to discuss with criminals.
MP Oazu Nantoi noted that Igor Dodon is a symbol of treason, theft, humiliation of the citizens before the government. “For the sake of power, while power for them means first of all money, they are ready to sell the country,” stated the MP.
MP Radu Marian said the PSRM-Shor coalition did many illegalities, tried to rob the state institutions and now try to steal the most precious thing – the elections. “They know that for the first time in the past 30 years, Parliament is close to being cleaned so that we have at least 51 honest, competent and upright MPs who would launch reforms and would destroy the schemes. They now struggle for “everything or nothing”, he stated.
Another PAS MP Dumitru Alaiba said the people care about the current and future developments. “This year our country will celebrate the 30th anniversary and what other present can we offer it if not a clean Parliament free from thieves that believes in this country that is loved by the people as they see their future and the future of their children here,” opined Dumitru Alaiba, noting the current legislature is full of thieves who call themselves “majority”.
Attending the protest, Vasile Costiuc, the leader of the Party “Democracy at Home”, said that if he hadn’t attended the protest today, tomorrow he could have formed part of the diaspora and this is the case of many other people. “These persons who captured the state do not intend to fight the pandemic. They need power to absorb what’s left of this republic,” he stated.
On April 23, the MPs of the Party of Socialists and the For Moldova platform revoked the Parliament’s decision by which Domnica Manole was appointed CC judge and named Boris Lupașco in her place. The same day, President Maia Sandu convened a meeting of the Supreme Security Council in which she requested the managers of the law enforcement agencies not to allow to be involved in anti-constitutional actions and not to fulfill illegal orders. She also requested the Prosecutor General’s Office to investigate the actions from the angle of usurpation of state power. Following a challenge filed by PAS MP Sergiu Litvinenco, the Constitutional Court in the evening suspended the two aforementioned Parliament decisions.
