Joint Committee aims at stopping Moldova’s deviation from democratic standards

The Social Democratic Party (PSDM), Republican People’s Party (PPR) and Centrist Union (UCM) constituted the “1 November 2006” Committee intended to stop the antidemocratic deviations in Moldova. The founders stated on Wednesday November 1, at a press conference, that the committee is a response to the antidemocratic actions of the leadership of Chisinau. “1 November 2006” Committee will have a status of consultative political body. Its main objectives are to stop the process of deviating from the democratic norms, to ensure the functioning of a real transparent political system, to liquidate the effects of the actions taken to usurp authority, and to align Moldova with the real democratic and European values. According to the conference’s organizers, after the setting up on 4 April 2005 of the so-called national political consensus, this authoritative regime is noticeable through the fully control on all the fields of the authority, as well as on audiovisual, through failing the idea of civil society, manipulating the society by creating NGOs, trade unions, parallel creation unions, affiliated and controlled by the authority etc. All these actions are elements of the action intended to usurp the state authority, contravene the Constitution and legislation in force, gravely affect interests and aspirations of a democratic society, are in flagrant contradiction to international commitments assumed by Moldova, the founders of the new organization assert. The Committee has the aim to coordinate the activity of more political opposition parties in order to achieve the respective objectives. The leaders of the three parties mentioned that the “1 November 2006” Committee is open for all the opposition parties that share the ideas and principles of edifying in Moldova a democratic and civilized state. The three political parties won at the parliamentary elections in 2005 about 5% of the total number of votes cast (then the PPR ran under the name of Christian Democratic Peasant Party).