The Socialists mobilize their supporters for the parliamentary elections by designating candidates in districts, while the National Unity Party could boycott the elections of next February. The party’s leader Anatol Șalaru announced this in the talk show “Truth live”.
“We are considering the best strategy for the election campaign as we cannot throw our votes into the garbage bins. If we reach the conclusion that our participation in elections would reduce the number of votes for Maia Sandu, for example, or would enable the Party of Socialists and the Democratic Party to win a comfortable majority, we will not take part in the elections,” stated Anatol Șalaru, without estimating the electoral base of the party.
No change is witnessed in the investigation into the banking fraud. The investigation is conducted selectively and involves only the persons who refused to cooperate with the current power. Programs director of the Center for Policies and Reforms Ștefan Gligor made such a statement in the talk show “Politics of Natalia Morari” on TV8 channel, following fresh reports about the payment of studies of Iurie Leancă’s youngest son by Ilan Șor when Leancă held the post of Premier. “Look where Iurie Leancă is now after he accepted to cooperate with this power and the Democratic Party and where the people who refused to do this are,” stated Ștefan Gligor, referring to ex-MP Kiril Luchinski.
Analyst Corneliu Ciurea said Ilan Shor financed (illegally, non-transparently – e.n.) many politicians in the Republic of Moldova and the case related to Iurie Leancă could be true. “If we jail all the politicians who took money from Ilan Shor, we will remain without the political class. We will possibly remain without the opposition too,” he noted.
Civic society is concerned that the thieves remain with the stolen US$ 1 million in their pockets, while the NBM assures there is enough money and the official foreign exchange reserves at the end of this September were over US$ 3.021bn, up US$ 57.96m compared with a month before. The rise was yet diminished by the payments for servicing the external public debt of the Republic of Moldova (US$ 9.85m) and the payments of US$ 7.32m made by the Ministry of Finance.
After the weekly meeting of the PDM, the party’s leader Vlad Plahotniuc announced that the Democrats will propose an amendment to the Constitution of the Republic of Moldova so that the judges are elected by the people. Contradicting politicians from Strasburg and Brussels, the Democratic leader said a number of reforms were done in the justice sector the past few years, but noted the perception that the judiciary is not independent and that different groups of interests intervene in the legal system persists.
However, the initiative attracted criticism already. Valeriu Munteanu, vice president of the Liberal Party, said the Democrats’ initiative to amend the Constitution so that it allows for the direct election of judges sounds well in the electoral period, but is extremely dangerous.
Vice president of the Liberal Democratic Party Ion Terguță said the introduction of such a system involves multiple legislative amendments that necessitate long-lasting procedures, while the PDM aims to this way shift the responsibility for the degeneracy in the justice sector onto the voters.
In another development, Vlad Plahotniuc said the amendment to enshrine the European integration course in the Constitution will be put to the vote in one of this week’s sittings of Parliament.
This time, criticism was leveled by President Igor Dodon, who said the amendment of the Constitution to introduce the European integration course in it is to the detriment of the balance in society. He said he will not promulgate the law and the Socialist parliamentary group will not support it either.
New details about the victims of the blast that occurred in Râșcani district of Chisinau appeared. Two of the victims, the woman who was found dead under the debris and the man who died in the hospital, were citizens of Israel. The spouses came to visit their son and see their granddaughter aged half a year.
Prosecutors instituted criminal proceedings in the case of the explosion. They have a suspect, but do not have sufficient evidence to charge this. Four persons, among whom a four-year-old child, died in the October 6 explosion. The 33-year-old woman in whose apartment the blast occurred remains in the hospital. She suffered serious injuries and burns.
A man aged 22 died in a traffic accident near Izvoare village of Florești district last night. The driver of the car in which the young man travelled lost control of the vehicle while speeding and this crashed into a utility pole. According to the National Patrolling Inspectorate of the Generac Police Inspectorate, the 24-year-old driver and two passengers aged 19 and 23 were hospitalized with fractures. The National Patrolling Inspectorate daily identifies by about 500 speeding drivers. Over 600 road accidents happened in eight months and these claimed 110 lives and injured more than 700 persons.
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