​LIBERAL DEMOCRATS MAINTAIN THEIR REPRESENTATIVES ARE BEING PRESSED ON IN THE LOCALITIES

Moldovan Liberal Democratic Party leaders maintain that LDPM representatives are being press on increasingly in practically all Moldovan localities.

LDPM Deputy Chairman MP Vadim Pistrinciuc stated to the press following the Saturday’s meeting with Liberal Democratic mayors and local power organ deputies that upon the formation of a new parliamentary majority recently and upon the LDPM’s becoming an opposition force, local LDPM elected representatives began suffering an ever growing pressure.

“The new parliamentary majority resorts to a practically overt blackmailing of local authorities by denying the law-stipulated financial means from the country’s central Budget, including even for salaries of provincial public employees, if the local residents refuse to sign e.g. applications on their quitting the Liberal Democratic Party or various statements condemning the LDPM leadership’s actions”, explained Vadim Pistrinciuc.

He called on the new Government and parliamentary majority to stop the blackmail and pressing.

“We shall not leave this lawlessness unanswered. We shall organize picketing of state institutions, and shall be informing Moldova’s foreign partners. We would recommend the majority to cease the blackmail against regional authorities and stop using state institutions as an instrument of pressure on public employees to force them leave the party”, said the Liberal Democrat.

LDPM Acting Chairman Valeriu Strelet said the meeting was organized on the request of local elected representatives “because provincial mayors and local council members [councilors] form the party’s most representative segment staying in constant contact with citizens”.

“We have begun preparation for an LDPM congress, so we have decided to hear the local deputies’ opinion about the new political situation in the republic. They described us the difficulties they come across in their daily work. We have adopted a statement confirming the unity and consolidation of LDPM members, which is particularly important in the conditions when local elected officials are remaining an object of various attacks and of attempts to bribe them into quitting the party”, said Valeriu Strelet.

Despite all efforts of the LDPM leadership, the Saturday’s meeting was attended by only 250 people – less that one-third of local councilors and mayors elected in June 2015 on LDPM lists. At the last year’s local elections, the Liberal Democratic Party won 285 mayors posts and nearly 500 councilor posts in village, raion and city/town councils [local legislatures].