Political party will watch carefully for the ruling party not to admit abuses following Vladimir Voronin’s statements about SIS

The Moldova Noastra Alliance Party (AMN) will monitor all the actions taken by the ruling party so as to make sure that no abuses and illegalities are committed following President Vladimir Voronin’s statements that the Security and Information Service should combat illegal political and media financing, including from abroad, the AMN MP Anatol Onceanu told Info-Prim Neo. AMN analysed the statements and decided to defend the law and the democratic practices, Onceanu said. “The persons to blame for the infringement of the law must be punished, but we will not accept abuses and settling of accounts,” he said. Onceanu also said that these statements, which he considers aberrant, came after the Communist MPs insisted that the political parties should be financed from the state budget as from July 1, 2009 and not from this year as it was initially planned. This happens because the governing party took under control all the funds and such an act looks like state racket, the cited source said. The statements about media financing are an outcome of the campaign of the former governmental paper “Moldova Suverana” (“Sovereign Moldova”) that delivers the message that extremely large funds from Romanian are allotted to media outlets to promote the Romanian values in Moldova. At the same time, when someone wants to prove that the television channel NIT, which is loyal to the government, is favoured, is offered possibilities of extending using state funds and a lot of legislative provisions are violated, the sate bodies do not take measures to find the truth, Onceanu said. According to a communique from the presidential office, at the meeting of the Board of the Security and Information Service, Vladimir Voronin said that the Service has the task to combat illicit political and media financing, including from abroad.