​COMMUNISTS INTEND TO TOUGHLY RESIST AUTHORITIES’ ATTEMPTS TO CHANGE ELECTION SYSTEM

The Moldovan Communist Party (MCP) intends to toughly withstand authorities’ attempts to change the election system, said its Chairman Vladimir Voronin at the Friday’s meeting with Dirk Schuebel, Head of the Eastern Partnership Bilateral Division in the European External Action Service (EEAS) and the previous Head of the European Union Delegation to the Republic of Moldova.

According to the party press release, at the meeting, a wide spectrum of problems concerning the internal and external policy, interaction between Moldova and international structures, evolution of political events in the country was discussed.

Voronin pointed at the danger of transiting to a single-member or mixed system of elections in conditions of factual state seizure.

“The implementation of the election reform, conducting of elections on a new system is fraught with the conservation of the acting regime, the final canceling of democratic processes in the country, establishment of dictatorship”, he said.

Among evident negative consequences of the so-called election reform, Voronin mentioned strengthening of the political corruption, excluding Transnistrian citizens from the process of voting, factual recognition of the border on the Dniester River, destroying of the current party structure of the society, risk to elect a nonfunctional Parliament.

As for the issue of implementing the EU-Moldova Association Agreement, Voronin pointed Dirk Schuebel’s attention to the imitation character of reforms, which are allegedly conducted by the authorities for implementing this Agreement.

“These are not reforms, it is an imitation of such”, Voronin said, adding that the current Government is one of the most incompetent in the antire Moldova’s history.

On Thursday, the MCP made a statement in which it expressed its position concerning the election reform. According to the document, the political corruption is rooted not in the election system, but in the authority.

“In order to get rid of corruption, we have to change the authorities but not the election system. The single-member system is aimed at strengthening the acting regime, headed by holder of the highest anti-rating (over 90%), DP Chairman Vlad Plahotniuc. Having unrestricted administrative resources and finances, the party in power is planning to get the so-called independent and popular deputies through single-member districts, and after that to unite them into an obedient majority”, the statement said.