​RENATO USATII QUITS MOLDOVA FOR SAFETY REASONS

For personal safety reasons, the Patria Party ticket leader Renato Usatii has left Moldova and flew urgently to Moscow.

Usatii explained that he quitted the country in apprehension of his arrest. In his words, honest police officers informed him about the arrests of Patria leaders being prepared by the Moldovan authorities.

“I arrived in the Chisinau airport minutes before airplane’s departure. I have come to know that nearly 20 warrants were issued for carrying out searches in the homes of Patria candidates for parliament, and a warrant for my arrest”, said Renato Usatii.

Soon after that, Usatii published in the social networks an appeal to compatriots saying that he had no much time for thinking over this decision.

“I am grateful to all my supporters. Life goes on. I care about your security. I am not an insane to let somebody use you as cannon fodder”, he wrote.

Usatii further held that this judgment by the Appeals Court is demonstrating what result the Chisinau authorities have achieved in reforming the Moldovan justice. He expressed confidence that time will come when people in Moldova will begin living according to the law.

Renato Usatii called upon his supporters not to react to anonymous calls to violence, like “take up arms and go to assault the Government Building” because all this is but a provocation.

“I will necessarily tell you what we should do next. We shall all the same defeat the main evil in Moldova called “Filat and Plahotniuc”. Sincerely yours Renato Usatii”, said the address.

Your Infotag correspondent was told in the Patria headquarters that on Friday Renato Usatii will organize a video press conference in Moscow to describe the latest developments in Moldova and his further actions. It is believed that the politician will address his supporters and tell them how they should act at the elections on November 30.

A Patria activist told Infotag today that the Party’s candidates for parliament are already being accused of “major smuggling, terrorism, espionage and extremism”.

On Friday, Patria candidates for parliament organized a news conference, at which MP Alexander Petkov called the authorities’ actions against Patria “an outrage, lawlessness and fulfillment of a political order”.

Petkov drew attention to the fact that the first institution to have reacted to such lawlessness was the US embassy in Chisinau. Details of the news conference will follow in Infotag news bulletin later on Friday.

Patria has already challenged the Appeals Court’s judgment with the Supreme Court of Justice, which is supposed to decide the issue on November 28.