The Democracy at Home party, alongside a group of people who staged a hunger strike during July 9-13, are resuming fasting today outside Parliament and will continue at least until next Monday, October 7.

The party’s leader Vasile Costiuc stated during a press conference that the hunger strike is intended to put pressure on the “MPs who care about Moldova” to consider forming another, pro-European coalition “formed of patriots.”

The new coalition would then need to start fighting against “oligarch and traitor Igor Dodon”, who Costiuc and the protesters want to see in jail. Costiuc suggests that failing to do so could put PAS and PDA in great danger after the local elections.

The politician relies on sources within the prosecutors’ community to allege that the President has prepared “300 criminal cases, with the help of surveillance and wiretapping, to imprison proponents of unification with Romania as well as vocal critics once the elections are over.” Costiuc added: “Wake up, Moldovans! We are about to enter Putin’s sphere of influence.”

Vasile Sinigur, a member of the protesting group, reiterated the call to lock Igor Dodon up, saying that the video evidence of the President admitting to receiving monthly payments from Russia wasn’t properly investigated. “We shall not give up until the Moldovan Constitution is respected. He violated the Constitution and we don’t recognize him as President,” added Sinigur.

In addition to the foreign funding claim, Igor Dodon is also accused by the Democracy at Home of “abusing his office by recognizing the debt for the gas” consumed by Transnistria and “for the recent statements made at the UN” General Assembly.