Renato Usatii says that this year's parliamentary elections deprived Moldova of its reputation as the only ex-Soviet country, with the exception of the Baltic states, that had relatively free and fair elections. The politician thinks that the ballot on November 30 was neither free, nor democratic and the results were rigged. According to him, the number of violations committed by the governing parties and by the Central Electoral Commission was high enough to alter the outcome of elections and the ballot results must be invalidated, IPN reports.

Usatii's Patria Party issued a press statement according to which the rights of hundreds of thousands of voters were violated when the party was removed from elections.

Besides the invalidation of the election results, Usatii demands the resignation of all the members of the Central Electoral Commission and their prosecution, as well as the discontinuation of “political repressions” against Patria activists. He called for the release of the “political prisoners” Nicolai Tipovici and Cornel Moraru, and for the prosecution against Pavel Grigorciuc and Mihail Amerberg to be canceled.

The statement urges “all the sound forces of Moldovan society to unite against the danger of an illegal government that came to power through rigged elections”.