On November 30, 2019, the mandate of the Parliament of the 20th legislature expired. Predictably, the leaders of the main parliamentary parties started to assess the results achieved by the legislative body in 2014-2018. It is very important to attentively consider what the given leaders say. This way we will convince ourselves that the summaries of politicians are often meant not to show the truth, but to serve as a launch pad for entering the next Parliament. Therefore, many of the pathetic statements underline what the politicians avoid saying even timidly. In the program “Personal emphasis” on Accent TV channel, the president of the Party of Socialists of the Republic of Moldova (PSRM) Zinaida Grecheanyi made a series of statements that considerably run counter to the profile and series of acts committed by the PSRM and its leaders. These are concrete facts that the leaders of the PSRM would prefer to forget, but should be reminded for the sake of the truth, for restoring common sense.

Characterizing the Parliament of the 20th legislature, the leader of the PSRM spoke about the specific particularities of this: ”The migration of MPs to the majority group, even if the people didn’t vote for such a composition of the group, is the biggest accomplishment of this Parliament”. The given assertion is absolutely correct. Moreover, this can be developed to make the effects of this migration clear to anyone. Indeed, 2/3 of the MPs of the Party of Communists of the Republic of Moldova (PCRM) and ¾ of the MPs of the Liberal Democratic Party of Moldova (PLDM) defected their groups to the group of the Democratic Party of Moldova (PDM) for re-constituting the parliamentary majority. The effect of this migration is that the Parliament of the 20th legislature, despite all its sins, completed its four-year mandate, while the political turncoats criticized by the leader of the PSRM remained only with the justification that they pleaded for political stability in the country. Is this thing condemnable?

It depends on the viewpoint, but not that of the PSRM as the leaders of the PSRM – the formal leader Zinaida Grecheanyi and the informal one Igor Dodon – acted namely like this in their time. It’s true that in the Parliament of the 19th legislature. In the Parliament of the 20th legislature, the former Communist colleagues only replicated the edifying example of the Socialists, at a wider and greater scale, but with the same effect – salvation of political stability. Surely, the compromises imply responsibility. But wasn’t the PSRM’s comprise based on assumed responsibility? Yes, it was. The salvation by the leaders of the PSRM, on March 16, 2012, of the Alliance for European Integrations, which is now accused of having created conditions for the banking fraud, was fully assumed pathetically by the party’s leader Igor Dodon:  “We will vote a President for stability in the Republic of Moldova. We will vote a President because the social situation, political reason and the evident responsibility for the interests of the state require it.   

In this connection, through the angle of the responsibility assumed by the leaders of the PSRM, Zinaida Grecheanyi’s reproach is somehow strange: ”What does this Parliament boast of. In its composition it had people woe tried to hide the theft of the US $ 1 billion. The current President of the RM Igor Dodon, who was then president of the PSRM, was the first politician who openly spoke about this problem. The current parliamentary majority did everything to change the law and to protect the own interests, not the interests of the citizens”. Didn’t the leaders of the PSRM hear about the raider attack on the banking system of August- November 2011 when they saved the political stability in 2012? Let’s admit that they didn’t hear about it as they were preoccupied with the preparation of the party switching of November 4, 2011. Anyway, when they make assertions, the leaders of the PSRM cannot ignore the fact that those whom they helped to remain in power in 2012, for the sake of political stability, in the banking fraud used the same mechanism as Premier Grecheanyi and Deputy Prime Minister Dodon used in relation to INVESTPRIVATBANK. Surely, the proportions are incomparable, but the good examples to be followed actually matter.

Form the aforementioned, we can presume that at the end of the Parliament’s mandate and at the start of the election campaign for a new mandate, the leaders of the PSRM see the speck in others’ eyes, but don’t see the beam in the own eye. Evidently, we can say that all the politicians act like this. But we won’t be right if we say it as not all the politicians claim to be friends of Orthodoxy, but only those from the PSRM. 

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