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​BUSINESSMAN VEACESLAV PLATON SAYS HE DID NOT PERMIT TO INCLUDE HIS NAME INTO MCP TICKET

24 octomber, 2014

“I am not personally acquainted with Mark Tkachuk, and I did not give my consent to include my name into whatever party tickets for the November 30 elections”. That was how prominent man of business Veaceslav Platon commented to Ziarul National newspaper the polemic going on between Moldovan Communist Party leader Vladimir Voronin and MCP’s former chief ideologist Mark Tkachuk over the inclusion of Platon into the MCP ticket.

“I am acquainted with Tkachuk in person. I just saw him in Parliament several times. Voronin’s statements surprised to me. I read them in papers with interest. Nobody has offered me to be included into any party ticket for the election. May be somebody has done this, but without asking me. Had such an offer really come to me, I would consider it thoroughly, but would most probably decline”, said Veaceslav Platon.

Asked if he is ready to return into big politics, the businessman said he has a dual attitude to modern politics in Moldova.

“When I look at present-day developments in Chisinau, I feel regret that I did not vote for Communists in 2009. Under the Communists, under Voronin, I was persecuted but all the same there was more democracy then, and European principles used to be observed to a greater or lesser extent, compared with the present-day situation. Now I regret that I did not vote for electing president in 2009”, confessed Veaceslav Platon.

Platon was a Member of Parliament in 2009-2010 from the Moldova Noastra Alliance, which was subsequently absorbed by the Liberal Democratic Party by the will of MNA leader Serafim Urechean. Platon’s name was mentioned repeatedly in the press in connection with the purchase of the parcels of some Moldovan banks. At the April 5, 2009 elections, the Communists won 60 mandates in the 101-member Parliament of Moldova, so they short-received only one mandate to 61, which number would have let them elect president of the republic all by themselves. The lack of that “golden vote” made the election of president impossible, which circumstance caused the need for holding an early parliamentary election that took place on July 29 that year.

Last October 22, MCP Chairman Vladimir Voronin stated that Mark Tkachuk had proposed him to include into the MCP ticket a number of people of business, including Veaceslav Platon. But Tkachuk called those words by Voronin “slander”, and explained that the formation of the MCP ticket had been entrusted to MP Artur Resetnicov, who heads the MCP electoral headquarters, and “who was the mediator to discussing and promoting this question”.

Experts believe that the alleged existence of a secret ticket became the formal pretext for holding a plenum of the MCP Central Committee on June 7, at which MPs Mark Tkachuk, Iurie Muntean and Grigore Petrenco were discharged from MCP governing bodies. That decision was initiated by party leader Voronin.

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