The National Platform of the Eastern Partnership Civil Society Platform expresses its solidarity with the EU Ambassador to Moldova Peter Michalko and asks the political parties to stop transforming the European diplomats into political targets and to focus on the identification of democratic solutions for overcoming the political crisis, in accordance with the people’s interests, IPN reports.
In a position note, the Platform says the Shor Party, through the fugitive MP Ilan Shor, and the Party of Socialists recently launched attacks on the EU Ambassador to the Republic of Moldova so as to distract attention from the undemocratic and unconstitutional maneuvers they perform to conserve their power following the loss of the presidential elections by Igor Dodon. The two parties reproach the European diplomat for the different positions he adopted and invoke a so-called violation by him of the country’s “sovereignty”. In reality, it is a diversion: both the Shor Party and the PSRM seem to be preoccupied with the securing of sovereign power for controlling the state institutions, despite the fact that they lost the voters’ support.
According to the National Platform of the Eastern Partnership Civil Society Platform, sovereignty is encroached on not by the EU ambassador, who says that deviations were witnessed from the commitments to do reforms that the Republic of Moldova undertook officially through the Association Agreement with the European Union, but by those who promote such approaches. Even the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Moldova declared unconstitutional one of the bills adopted in December 2020 by a majority formed by the PSRM, the Shor Party and the For Moldova Platform, which violated the legal procedures and decisional transparency.
Ambassador Peter Michalko spoke from the angle of the partnership and cooperation relationship between the EU and Moldova. Besides the Association Agreement with the EU signed by the Republic of Moldova in 2014, which stipulates a series of obligations for both of the sides, the EU is on a position of partnership from a number of viewpoints, says the statement. The EU is the main trade partner of Moldova. In 2020, exports to the EU represented 67% of all Moldova’s exports, while cooperation with the EU and the observance of the European norms and values actually strength the sovereignty of the Republic of Moldova and its economic, social and democratic development.
The position note was signed by 96 member organizations of the National Platform of the Eastern Partnership Civil Society Platform.
