Ex-presidential advisor Sergiu Mocanu worried at speaker’s fate

The president of the People’s Alliance, Sergiu Mocanu, a former counselor to President Vladimir Voronin, is worried at the fate of the parliament’s speaker, Marian Lupu, and bewails over the latter’s “moments of humiliation” in “Voronin’s team.” On Tuesday, March 25, at a news conference, Mocanu read out an appeal to Marian Lupu to abandon the ruling party and join the opposition, naming that Appeal “a public challenge,” Info-Prim Neo reports. The appeal’s author says he resorted to such a way of communication with his friend because it is customary among politicians to discuss publicly and, that such a way of communication is necessary also for the freedom of expression in a closed society as the Moldovan one is. The courage showed only in amiable talks, one-to-one, can become the most coward form of resistance against an oligarchy. Mocanu doubts Lupu’s place is in Voronin’s team. “No slave has ever got next to his sovereign and, furthermore, in the latter’s place, except for the cases when the slave faced the latter,” Mocanu said. He says Lupu has a mission of a leader and he knows the method in which the Parliament’s president could become a leader “of the third force,” which would get the Communists down from the power. Marian Lupu does not leave the Communists Party on his own will, especially after the sixth congress which showed the organization was not going to reform as the speaker had hoped, because of his decency, says Mocanu. The ex-presidential advisor says he regrets “this social phenomenon, a man with political capital gained and not knowing how to spend it.” Mocanu maintains he does not advocate a shameful leave of Lupu from politics after he might get an order from the country’s president, as Tarlev had it. “I am a rather mature person and I am able to take decisions by myself. The decision is mine. I never needed and will never need someone to ask me or to apply methods as to myself, as I am accustomed to think with my own head,” said speaker Marian Lupu, in a reply to comment the call of the ex-presidential advisor. However Lupu avoided to answer the question whether he would remain or not in the Communists Party.