Much of the political class today is deeply corrupt, stated the Communist Party leader Vladimir Voronin in an ample interview with IPN.
“I can’t talk about the professional and other capacities of the political class, and I specifically mean the government here. Nothing matters as long as they are corrupt. The reasons of corruption are many, and I don’t just mean in the sense that they take money and stuff their pockets, but also in the sense that people are getting promoted to key posts based on party affiliation. These people are there to heed the boss’s orders rather than serve the people’s and country’s interest”, declared the third president of Moldova.
He added that voters deserved their government. “We the Communist should also share part of the blame, for not being able to explain it clearly enough to our voters what the consequences would be. But our foresight had a limit, too. Who knew that they would buy so many deputies, and would steal so many billions?
“However, the main problem is how the voters behave. They vote not as their mind tells them to, but as politicians expect them to. Until the voter learns to vote consciously, nothing will change. This is why the government exploits the opportunity to throw money left and right during campaigns to buy people’s votes. We are cutting off our own noses to spit the face.
“It’s about time that people understood that the ballot they cast has a greater value than any amount of money, than any stolen billions. That it has a value that matters for the next for years of his life. It’s sad that even if we try to explain this, they come with three-four hundred lei and buy his vote, and then he laments his decision and weeps. Like I said on previous occasions, if there were an international weeping contest, Moldovans would certainty take the ‘Oh my God, what am I to do now!’ grand prize. We’ve gone ‘Oh my God!’ for twenty-six years now”, fumed the Communist leader.
He believes that the ‘captured state’ term still applies to Moldova. “Meanwhile, this ‘captured state’ term has added new elements. Take the last legislative election results: there’s one party which entered Parliament with 19 seats; one with 21 seats (I mean us), and another one with 25 seats. Now this party with 19 seats, the Democratic Party, eventually ends up with a majority – over 50 seats. They bought them like piglets at the marketplace and you call this normal? You call this legal? How do you call this, when you enter the legislature under one party’s banner, supporting its program and with the support of its voters, and then you defect for your own narrow interests? All the fourteen MPs who defected from us now own luxury cars, new apartments and so on”, stated Vladimir Voronin in an ample interview with IPN.
