​OPPOSITION CALLS TO PROTESTING ON INDEPENDENCE DAY

Moldovan opposition forces are calling on citizens to take part in an action of protest in central Chisinau on the Moldovan Independence Day of August 27. To this end, the said forces have initiated a campaign called “#NuMaTem” (“I’m not afraid”) in the social networks.

Within the action’s framework, interested social network users are shooting short video clips under the slogan of “I’m not afraid”, calling compatriots to gather for a massive action of protest in the Great National Assembly Square on the Independence Day. They are thus calling Moldovans to express protest against the Government and the ruling coalition as a whole, and to upset the military parade and other Independence events.

The action was initiated by lawyer Anna Ursachi. She was the first to have distributed in the social networks a video appeal to citizens with a call to come to the country’s main square and “express protest against the actions by the criminal ruling regime that has let a billion dollars be stolen from the nation’s currency reserve and that keeps robbing the country”.

Anna Ursachi was supported by Partidul Nostru [Our Party] leader Renato Usatii, by Andrei Nastase – Chairman of the political party called Platform Demnitate si Adevar [DA, “Dignity and Justice”], and by the hundreds of the supporters of these two opposition parties, who responded to the hash tag “#NuMaTem” created in the Facebook specially for the purpose. The action was joined by ex-parliamentarians Alexander Petkov and Grigore Petrenco, by civil society activists and public figures, who are now distributing their video addresses with calls to offer massive resistance to the anti-popular regime.

DA leader Andrei Nastase addressed with this call also to Moldovan diaspora representatives. Last Saturday, he flew from Washington to Moscow, where he met with a big group of Moldovan gastarbeiters. That meeting was attended also by DA activists Alexandru Slusari and Stanislav Pavlovschi.

In Moscow, Andrei Nastase met also with Our Party leader Renato Usatii, who has been staying in the Russian capital for a few weeks already. Presumably, they discussed joint actions on August 27 and in the forthcoming presidential campaign.

Earlier, Renato Usatii urged Andrei Nastase and Party of Socialists leader Igor Dodon to hold a meeting in Chisinau on August 27 so as to work out a strategy of the presidential campaign. So far, however, Dodon has not reacted in any way to that call or to the campaign for organizing an action of protest on the Independence Day.