PRESIDENT DODON CRITICIZES SEXUAL MINORITIES' UNDERTAKING

On Friday, Moldovan President Igor Dodon again criticized the undertaking the local sexual minorities have organized within the framework of the 16th festival "Moldova Pride 2017' of the LGBT community of lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transsexuals. Dodon stated he categorically condemns both the festival as such and its street march scheduled for the upcoming Sunday.

A journalist reminded the head of state that during the recent presidential campaign, candidate Dodon promised to be a president for all, and Dodon agreed, saying "That's right, but I did not promise to become a president of gays and lesbians. I think they have missed their chance of electing a different president that would present their interests".

And on Thursday, Igor Dodon announced that that a decision had been taken to organize on May 21 a number cultural and other massive events in support and promotion of traditional family values that will begin in the Great National Assembly Square at 11 am next Sunday. The Festival of the Family, to be held under the auspices of the President, is a component of the social campaign called "I Love Moldova". Its organizers will hold various competitions for children and will invite animators, clowns, favorite children's fairy tale heroes who will give presents to kids. The program includes also concerts, horse riding, a soap bubble show and many other entertainments - all free of charge. The LGBT organizers called the sexual minorities to come for the Sunday march not with posters but with flowers. They keep repeating that the march has been sanctioned by the authorities and that the marchers' safety will be provided for by police.

The march will begin on Sunday noon at the crossing of the Bucuresti and Izmail streets, and the minorities are projecting to walk as far as until the Palatul Republicii [Palace of the Republic] - about 5 blocks along Bucuresti. In previous years, the LGBT marchers were able to advance only several tens of meters because numerous eggs were hurled at them and they were hissed away by many angry citizens, despite the police cordons. And practically every time, the police had to quickly save the helpless marks in the waiting buses and evacuate them from the place to avoid violence from behalf of the supporters of traditional family values.