MAE: Crisis in Chisinau Council is a continuation of the betrayal act of April 4, 2005

The European Action Movement (MAE) expresses its concern at the scope of the process of restoring communism in the Local Public Administration initiated by the present governors and their allies. Such a message was sent by the MAE members at a news conference on June 12, Info-Prim Neo reports. “By the finishing stroke performed by the dictatorial Voronin regime in the CMC on June 6, the Communist authorities committed a gross encroachment on the local administration,” the MAE statement says. The organization’s leaders say that the new odious coalition created in the CMC at the instructions of the head of state constitutes an overthrow of the democratic, pro-European administration of the Chisinau Council, which disrupts and throws into confusion the normal activity of this important body and blocks the activity of the Chisinau City Hall. “These dictatorial acts form part of the steps taken by the present government with the aim of destroying the state of law and restricting the rights and fundamental freedoms of the Moldovan people. It was demonstrated once again that the pro-European rhetoric is a screen for camouflaging the dictatorial essence of the Voronin regime,” the vice president of MAE, MP Zoia Jalba said. She has stressed that MAE condemns the totalitarian practices used by the Communist government in Chisinau and calls on all the people of the country to make common cause with the pro-European and democratic political forces so as to defend the Constitution of Moldova and continue the path to integration into the family of European and Western peoples. Speaking about the preparations for the parliamentary elections, the MAE president Anatol Petrencu said that the Communist Government makes everything possible to remain in power after 2009. MAE considers that the recent amendments to the Law on Political Parties and to the Electoral Code are discriminatory and are meant to hinder the pro-European parties from entering the Parliament. At the same time, MAE considers that the right-wing parties should join forces in the 2009 election campaign and should aim not only at entering the Parliament, but at overthrowing the present government and at returning things to normal. According to Anatol Petrencu, MAE has already initiated talks with a number of democratic parties over the joint participation in the future elections. They have discussed with the leaders of the PL, PLDM and PNL. No decision has been made yet.