… BUT BASHKAN REFUSES TO RESIGN

Gagauzia Bashkan Mikhail Formuzal stated that he is further serving as the autonomy’s governor. In this connection, he asked the legislators of the Gagauzia Popular Assembly “not to go beyond the legal frameworks and not to take part in such shows that are humiliating the public officials and are discrediting Gagauzia’s image.”     

In his official statement on the matter, he reminded that this past Friday, the deputies of the Gagauzia Popular Assembly failed to enlist two-thirds of ballots necessary to express the no-confidence vote to Bashkan of Gagauzia Mikhail Formuzal. The idea was backed by only 19 deputies of the 35-member regional legislature, although 24 votes are needed to dismiss the official from his post.

“In spite of this, representatives of the Democratic Party encroached on many laws of the Gagauzia Popular Assembly and of the Republic of Moldova, by illicitly appointing their party comrade in the post of acting Gagauzia Governor and by trying to break into the work-room of Bashkan Formuzal. The intention to ouster the governor from his post turned into an attempt to mount a coup d'etat in the autonomy, which has been thwarted by the region’s law enforcement bodies,” said Formuzal, expressing his regret over the fact that the reputation of the Democratic Party, as a political formation that has staged many raider attacks, has been proved out in practice in Gagauzia.         

He described the Democrats’ actions as “a proof of agony and incapacity to gain the respect of citizens and to enlist their support by lawful, democratic measures.”  

“The behavior displayed by the MPs of the Democratic Party fully discredits the professional potential of the legislative body of Gagauzia,” he said.

Addressing to the Moldovan civil society, he did not rule out the fact that such mechanisms of forcible seizure of power that are being used in Gagauzia, may be also applied at the state level in the Republic of Moldova.

“Thus, I am calling on all the political formations, leaders of the civil society, as well as on all the citizens, to condemn the illicit actions of the Democratic Party and to thwart any attempts of usurpation of power in Moldova by some criminal-oligarchic forces,” the Bashkan wrote in his statement.