The head of the Centrist Union Mihai Petrache and former Minister of National Security Anatol Plugaru consider the referendum and the early legislative and presdiential elections should be avoided. In a news conference held at Info-Prim Neo on August 4, the two jurists said the parties represented in Parliament should hold negotiations and distribute the senior state posts according to the number of votes won in the last parliamentary elections of July 29, 2009. According to Mihai Petrache and Anatol Plugaru, the election campaigns swallow millions of lei at a time when Moldova faces an economic crisis, extreme poverty and natural calamities that cause damage of hundreds of millions of lei. The two jurists consider that the referendum and elections in such a situation should be avoided and the state poisons should be distributed by talks so as to prevent Moldova’s collapse. Plugaru and Petrache suggest giving the millions of lei saved to flood victims and other persons in need and urge the parties that prepared tens of millions of euros and hundreds of millions of lei for the future elections to share it to the poor people and spend it on urgent needs rather than election posters. The head of the Centrist Union and the former Minister of National Security presented a memorandum of cooperation between the parliamentary parties for efficient government in dealing with the socioeconomic crisis and 2010 floods. The document, which is proposed for signing to the five leaders of the parliamentary parties, contains measures aimed at improving the situation in Moldova, including postponing the September 5 constitutional referendum, invalidating the attempts to elect the President of Moldova last autumn, adjusting the law on the election of the head of state to the Constitution The memoriam provides for the punishment of the MPs who will not take part in the presidential elections in Parliament and excludes the possibility of boycotting the elections. It suggests constituting a National Conciliation Government in November, immediately after the current legislative body elects the head of state, and imposing a moratorium on dismissing the representatives of the three braches of power by September 5, 2012, except for voluntary resignations. It also proposes continuing reviewing the Constitution in Parliament, adopting the budget for 2011 and holding a constitutional referendum if the memorandum cannot be fulfilled. It says the legislature should be dissolved within ten days if it is again unable to elect the President. Mihai Petrache and Anatol Plugaru said the members of the first Parliament are pessimistic about the fate of the Alliance for European Integration, which was betrayed and destroyed, according to them, by the leader of the PLDM Vlad Filat, who does not realize that the Communists may come to power if the Alliance is disbanded. They criticized the member parties of the Alliance for inability to govern and called on the parliamentary parties to prove responsibility and treat people’s interests as more important than their own interests. The jurists ask the five party leaders to show political maturity and sign the national conciliation document proposed by them as it can bring the political war to an end. Plugaru and Petrache warn that if the five political parties do not appropriately govern the county, they will be penalized by the population that is running out of patience.