Opposition parties from parliament go for elections separately

Those three opposition parties from the Parliament – the Liberal Party (PL), the Liberal Democratic Party (PLDM) and Our Moldova Alliance (AMN) – will go with separate lists for the snap elections. The decision was made public on June 15 at a joint news conference, Info-Prim Neo reports. According to Liberal leader Mihai Ghimpu, it would take more time to make a single list. “And the public opinion also wants us to go separately,” Mihai Ghimpu said. On the other hand, the PL leader invoked the reason of rigging the April 5 elections by the ruling party. “Going separately, we'll have by two members of our parties at each polling station,” Ghimpu exemplified. Vlad Filat, the PLDM's president, talked about coordinating the actions of the three parties with the purpose to unfold correctly the election campaign. “We exclude the mutual attacks,” he assured. “We'll go with separate lists because the Communists banned our good intentions to form electoral blocs,” sated AMN's leader Serafim Urecheanu. Those three politicians have said the their candidates lists will be subject to only minor changes. “Those 15 MPs will stay on the list. But. We'll also have new known colleagues,” Filat said. Asked if Marian Lupu, who left the PCRM, and Andrei Stratan, expected to follow the former one's move, may be taken by the PLDM, Vlad Filat has answered such a thing is not possible. “AMN is not a trap to catch rats,” Serafim Urecheanu answered the same question. Veaceslav Platon, expected by some media to give the Communists the golden vote, will also stay on AMN's list. “Veaceslav Platon will represent the ethnic minorities on AMN's list, his mother is a Gagauz. I am not interested in his conflict with Oleg Voronin,” Serafim Urecheanu specified. “The PL's list remains the same, with small modifications,” said Mihai Ghimpu. The opposition parties from the parliament issued a joint statement about the need to overcome the political crisis by adopting a roadmap for the good functioning of the democratic institutions and for the European integration. “We support the roadmap drafted by the Moldovan civil society and we want to identify realistic solutions to overcome the crisis,” reads the statement of June 15.