Ex-deputy prime minister Constantin Oboroc, former presidential adviser, reproaches the leader of the Party of Communists Vladimir Voronin for not taking measures to ensure the presidents of political parties are elected by secret ballot, as PPPDA suggests now. In a news conference at IPN, Constantin Oboroc said that if this commitment is put into practice, the rules in national politics will be basically changed.
“We are now under the illusion that we live in a democratic country. If the vote inside political parties cannot be expressed in secret and freely, we cannot speak about real democracy inside parties,” said the ex-deputy prime minister.
Constantin Oboroc noted that the leader of the PCRM Vladimir Voronin not only once boasted that he had a constitutional majority, but he didn’t change anything in the Constitution. “It’s a pity, Mister Voronin, that you could not see what you needed to change. You had the chance of essentially amending the Constitution so that there are no deviations in the country,” said Constantin Oboroc. According to him, Vladimir Voronin wasn’t able to do this as he does not think like those from PPPDA, who work, create and suggest solutions. This is a team that really works according to the democratic principles in a political party. “It is a political party that is not directed by a chief with an iron hand and their efficiently in Parliament and team work are a proof of this,” noted Constantin Oboroc.
He gave the example of the developed countries where there is economic growth at all levels, saying that if Vladimir Voronin had used the power of his mind, he would have reached the conclusion that secret ballot inside parties is needed so as to ensure authentic democracy, but his Leninists principles and beliefs prevented him from doing this.
Constantin Oboroc noted that in the modern history of the country, the state institutions were attacked for two times. It happened on November 10, 1989 and on April 7, 2009. In both of the events, Vladimir Voronin was the key figure to blame, in the first case because he didn’t realize what he had to do to avoid violence, while in the second case because, instead of making changes and democratizing the political parties, he established an authoritarian regime and turned into a chief.
According to Constantin Oboroc, the law and principles by which the parties have been built after Vladimir Voronin left the post enabled ‘the shrewd guys’ who came to govern the country to appropriate power in the state through political parties. Vladimir Voronin builds his election campaign on hatred toward the brothers from over the Prut, with which those who were formed in his party maintained power.
Neither Vladimir Voronin and the Party of Communists he leads nor the Electoral Bloc of the Communists and the Socialists with which he runs in elections have commented on Constantin Oboroc’s statements for now.
