Communist Party leader Vladimir Voronin is confident that his team fielded for the upcoming elections is able to fix the “degrading situation” that has developed in Moldova in the last decade.

Vladimir Voronin told a press conference on Tuesday that all 54 candidates on the PCRM list are party members, and 40% are women. The average age of the candidates is 55 years. The team consists of 13 engineers, 11 lawyers, 11 economists, 9 political scientists, 7 teachers, and two medical workers. 16 candidates live in Chisinau and 38 in various towns and villages. One candidate is a person with disabilities and one has double citizenship.

Vladimir Voronin criticized the state of affairs in the country: “the high level of corruption and the migration of the working population”. According to the Communist leader, society is divided and signs of a political dictatorship are observed. Vladimir Voronin said that the efforts of his team will be aimed at “liberating Moldova and the state institutions from usurpers, fighting corruption, freeing the business from pressures of state officials, creating new jobs, and as concerns foreign policy - re-establishing relations good with everyone.”

The politician described the Communist party ticket as “an epitome of resistance to temptation”, an allusion to the fourteen defecting MPs who joined the Democratic Party. If making it to the future Parliament, Vladimir Voronin said the PCRM will only make a coalition with “the people”.

In other note, Vladimir Voronin urged voters to boycott the referendum, because he thinks it’s a trick by those initiated it to win more votes.

Asked to comment on the controversy about the two Moldovan pilots recently freed from Taliban captivity, Voronin said he believed their release and return was purposefully delayed, as Speaker Andrian Candu claimed.