Journalist Nata Albot announced her decision to withdraw from the list of candidates of the Party of Action and Solidary (PAS) for the snap parliamentary elections of July 11. She said she decided not to do more harm than the good she intended to do to the party’s team as, if she stays, she will be discredited in all her attempts to speak about serious things, IPN reports.

The journalist’s announcement comes after the leader of the Party “Building Europe at Home” Gheorghe Cavcaliuc said that the eighth place on the list of a party is occupied by a person who in 2016 was caught with drugs at the Chisinau International Airport. According to him, this person bribed those who handled the case so as to get rid of responsibility. It was later reported that the person had 0.78 grams of marijuana on her.

In a live program, Nata Albot said that someone then gave her a remaining pack of cigarettes. She didn’t look inside it and the next day went in the same clothes to the airport, where she was subject to a check. The police officer searched her and took that pack “as if he knew what was there inside it. She wrote an explanation and was told that she can leave. She was to contact the officer on her return. She was later told that the quantity was so small that she cannot be held accountable.

The journalist considers the publication by Cavcaliuc of that dossier, without her agreement, is an abuse of power. At the same time, Gheorghe Cavcaliuc is investigated in three criminal cases of abuse of power as he caused damage of millions of lei to the state when he served in the police force.

The Central Election Commission on May 21 registered six entities as runners in the July 11 elections. These are: Electoral Bloc of the Communists and the Socialists; “Building Europe at Home” Party;  Common Action Civic Congress Party; Electoral Bloc “Renato Usatîi”; Party of Action and Solidarity, and Shor Party.