The resident European ambassadors are urged by presidential election candidate Tudor Ulyanovski to change their attitude if they want to prevent the decline in the population’s trust in European leaders, institutions and ambassadors and to ensure that the country's European project has a future. Ulyanovski recommends the diplomats to accept various opinions and ways of being pro-European, and not only through the person of incumbent President Maia Sandu.
In a news conference hosted by IPN, Tudor Ulyanovski accused the ambassadors of pretending not to notice the illegalities committed during the election campaign. He reproached the ambassadors for ignoring the fact that, in the upcoming presidential election and referendum, “there will be no exit-poll – a tool invented mainly to prevent electoral abuses or fraud, especially on the part of the government.”
“You are not impressed even by the fact that the Central Election Commission of the Republic of Moldova recently approved and printed a record number of over 852,000 ballots for Moldovan citizens who are abroad, of the diaspora, and the opening of over 200 polling stations in 37 countries. An unprecedented number of 850,000 ballots is a premiere for the Republic of Moldova. Just as you did not notice the fact that over 400,000 Moldovans in the diaspora, in Russia, will not be able to vote, but this is a violation of the constitutional right to vote and to stand as a candidate at elections,” stated Tudor Ulyanovski.
The candidate stressed that ambassadors’ obstinacy to see only Maia Sandu and only the PAS, ignoring the others who think in a European way, but do not vote for Maia Sandu and the PAS, is a huge mistake. Respectively, if it goes on like this, the country’s European project can be permanently blocked.
“The referendum for Europe is close to the limit. Mrs. Maia Sandu has no chance to win the election by the first round, but the current President of the Republic of Moldova did not take part in any electoral debate. Nor does she make an appeal, together with other pro-European candidates, to support together this referendum that was invented by them,” said Tudor Ulyanovski.
The candidate warned that if the country’s European project stalls, there are two scenarios for the country: “the first scenario would be the Kozak II scenario, i.e. an alliance of the PAS with the Putinists in the Republic of Moldova, while the second scenario, the Georgian one, with a pro-European president, but with a Parliament of a different political orientation.”
In Ulyanovski’s opinion, for all this not to happen, the ambassadors should be more inclusive and tolerant - left, right, center, even independent, but pro-European. “We, the Moldovans, can love Europe of whatever political orientation we are. We can love Europe in any language, Romanian, Russian, Turkish or Ukrainian. You just need to admit this,” stated the candidate.
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