Viorel Cibotaru seeks his exclusion from state commission for investigation of causes and consequences of April 7-8 events

The director of the European Institute for Political Studies of Moldova, Viorel Cibotaru demands that he be excluded from the state commission for the elicitation of causes, conditions and consequences of the April 7-8 events set up by presidential decree, Info-Prim Neo reports. Cibotaru said he found out about his inclusion in the composition of the commission from the press and stressed that the commission cannot ensure the conditions needed for a fair, impartial, objective and credible examination of the April 7-8 events. In a statement issued on April 22, Viorel Cibotaru says that he does not want to form part of the commission because he has earlier made public his concern about the worsening of the social and political situation following the April 5 elections. According to Cibotaru, he asked then that a plenary and transparent investigation involving representatives of international organizations is launched to discover the causes that led to acts of vandalism. He said that a solution to the crisis cannot be identified without the participation of a large number of politicians, representatives of the civil society and international organizations. “The given commission does not meet these requirements and the basic criteria and does not provide conditions for a fair, impartial, objective and credible examination of the April 7-8 events,” Viorel Cibotaru said. On April 21, the outgoing President of Moldova Vladimir Voronin ordered the creation of a commission that would elucidate the causes, conditions and consequences of the events that took place in Chisinau on April 7 and 8. The Communist MP Vladimir Turcan was named as chairman of the commission. The results of the examination will be made known until May 5 at a sitting of the Parliament.