MCP AND KOMSOMOL ACTIVISTS STAGE PICKETING ON PARLIAMENT PREMISES
01.02.2012
The representatives of the opposition Communist Party and of the Komsomol [communist youth league] occupied a spacious lobby in the agriculture ministry’s multistory building, where parliamentary standing committees rent rooms and work.
About 50 protesters unfolded their anti-AEI posters and started chanting “Down with the Alliance”, “Disband the Parliament”, “Alliance, bog off”, “The Parliament is out of law, we demand elections”, “Police is with us”, and the like.
Communist Party staff lawyer Sergiu Sirbu stated to Infotag in the Ministry lobby that the Communists will be continuing their various-form actions of protest at least until the end of May.
“We have no idea when the impotent Alliance may decide to resign. Its leaders have been usurping power for so long already, thus pushing the republic to a catastrophe. We demand their going away now! Today, it is only the beginning. In subsequent protest actions, we shall be many more”, said MP Sergiu Sirbu.
Addressing the journalists and other casual people present in the ministerial building’s lobby, the protesters stated that they had run out of patience, that the country has been in a crisis and aggravating poverty for nearly 3 years, and that the promised increase of salaries, pensions and student pays has not come true.
“The ruling alliance, led by Mihai Ghimpu, Marian Lupu and Vladimir Filat, must bear responsibility for their actions. They spit on the Constitution, and continue their usurpation of power. They do nothing to get the country out of the crisis, for they are preoccupied solely with their own political survival. Such rulers must go”, stated MP Grigore Petrenco.
The picketers demanded resignation of the Filat Government, the Parliament, the Constitutional Court, the Central Election Commission, and to bring the Parliament Speaker and Democratic Party leader, Marian Lupu, to stand responsibility for his doings.
The picketing lasted 2 hours, during which not a single one out of the Parliament members, who passed the lobby, cared to halt and answer the protesters’ questions.
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