The leader of the People’s Movement “Antimafie” Sergiu Mocanu considers the chairman of the Liberal Party Mihai Ghimpu should have conceded the Great National Assembly Square of Chisinau to the people who staged a protest against the government on June 7. In a news conference at IPN on June 10, Sergiu Mocanu said this didn’t happen because the first deputy chairman of the Democratic Party Vlad Plahotniuc has control over Ghimpu.

“Many people asked me why Ghimpu behaved so strangely at that people’s protest in the Great National Assembly Square. Why strange? Because any person who saw that situation realized that it could have been dealt with very easily. Ghimpu, Chirtoaca and the others would have gained a lot if at 12 noon Ghimpu had said: “Dear people, I offer you this rostrum. Come up on this stage!””, stated Sergiu Mocanu.

The leader of “Antimafie” said Mihai Ghimpu easily could have made such a gesture so as to avoid discussions about the clashes between pro-Europeans in the central square of Chisinau. “They didn’t clash because of the Great National Assembly Square. It was Plahotniuc who struggled against the people so that the protesters could not freely show their revolt, while Ghimpu served this cause, which is a wrong one,” he said.

Sergiu Mocanu also said that a large part of the Democratic Party’s candidates distribute presents in the settlements in which they run only in order to be elected to posts. Organized criminal groups that were investigated for trafficking in drugs and other offenses are running in northern Moldova on behalf of the Liberal Democratic Party and the Democratic Party,” he stated.