The former Moldovan premier, the author of modifying the name of the Moldavian SSR to the Republic of Moldova, Mircea Druc, says that, in 1991, when adopting the Independence Declaration, he was certain that, as the Soviet colossus was dismantling, the territories occupied in 1940 would return to Romania and together would have become part of the union of European states. Mircea Druc has told Info-Prim Neo he does not know if he wanted in 1991 that 6 counties from Basarabia would gain their independence and statehood. “I was and remain a unionist, being certain that, only by joining Romania, Moldova will be able to overcome the economic and political collapse in which it is. In those years, we, a group of intellectuals, sincerely wanted to repair the catastrophe caused on June 28, 1940, by losing the Romanian territories,” he says. According to Druc, the then leadership of the republic had quite different dreams. During the immediate period after the independence, there were two plans of the events unfolding – the Mircea Druc plan meaning the return to the 1918 statu quo and reuniting the country, and the Mircea Snegur plan – meaning joining the CIS and all the humiliations that followed. The former prime-minister says the Basarabians chose to follow Snegur, erring much and reaching the miserable situation they are in now, without asking themselves why the Baltics managed to make consistent steps towards the European Union, breaking the nostalgia for the USSR. “The Moldovans wanted to suck from two cows, and they brought Voronin to power, he did not come mounted on the Russian tanks,” Mircea Druc says. Referring to the biggest failures of the post-independence period, the ex-premier says it was changing the Constitution in terms of electing the president. He says a good president is one elected by the people, not by “a gang from the Parliament.” Druc accuses the two presidents – Snegur and Lucinshi – of the situation in Moldova, as they “brought the Communists to power.” He thinks the Moldovans don't have verticality, being manipulated and kneed, not willing to realize the danger the Communists have for their children, for their sovereignty, dignity, language, for their future. “Being 75 per cent in Basarabia, we cannot do what 52 per cent in Latvia and Riga do,” Mircea Druc said. According to him, he was dismissed from the position of a premier in May 1991 with the involvement of president Snegur and of the Agrarians. [Info-Prim Neo's note:] The Mircea Druc Cabinet was invested by the Parliament on May 24, 1990, by 259 votes, one abstention and no vote against.