OUR PARTY NOMINATES NICOLAI GRIGORISHIN FOR BALTI MAYOR

The Partidul Nostru [Our Party, OP] has nominated incumbent Acting Mayor of Balti Nicolai Grigorishin as the Party’s candidate for mayor of the country’s second-largest city for the May 20 snap mayoral election. The decision was taken at the Wednesday’s open-door meeting of the OP Balti city territorial organization.

Grigorishin thanked his party comrades for their trust in him and voiced confidence that on May 20 Balti citizens will choose freedom and justice, and will vote for the real interests and the future of their native city.

“Today there are us – normal people who still live in Moldova and in Balti city. And there are them – the criminal band robbing Moldova and having a great desire to start robbing our city, too. I am sure that on May 20 all of us together will make an only possible correct choice and will win in Balti, and after that – in the whole of Moldova!” said Nicolai Grigorishin.

OP Chairman Renato Usatii, hiding in Moscow since August 2016 from what he calls “the Plahotniuc justice in Moldova”, took part in the party meeting by means of the Skype and called on citizens “not to surrender our northern fortress to the Chisinau criminals in power”.

Usatii announces the raising of citizens’ signatures in support of yet one more candidate from Our Party – OP Deputy Chairperson Elena Gritco, a Balti Municipal Council member. Her nomination is the party’s reserve variant that will be used if the authorities deny registration to Grigorishin.

Usatii assured Balti citizens that Grigorishin is a man that will never agree to bargain with the Moldovan mafia.

“Being a genuine army officer, he must complete what was started by me and to multiply the results we achieved together at the initial stage of our work. Together, we shall not permit the central Plahotniuc authorities to downgrade our city to the condition of a political brothel and to install in Balti what they have installed in the Moldovan Parliament, Government and Presidential Office. Balti is a different city, it is a correct city”, stated the opposition politician.

Renato Usatii presumes that the central Moldovan authorities are preparing a coup in Balti to divide the city into spheres of influence, so that the Balti Primaria [city government] go into the hands of the Dodon’s Party of Socialists, and the Balti Municipal Council [city legislature] – to Plahotniuc’s Democratic Party.

However, Renato Usatii is convinced that these plans are doomed to failure and that the ‘northern capital’ will remain “a resistance city”.

As was already reported by Infotag, readiness to run for Balti Mayor has been stated also by the city’s former Deputy Mayor Alexander Usatii from the Party of Socialists, by Balti citizen Sergiu Burlacu, 27, of the pro-Romania National Unity Party (PUN), and by Arina Spataru of the DA Platform.

The May 20 election winner will be holding the mayor’s post only one year – until the ordinary local elections of mid-2019. This year’s snap mayoral election has been caused by the resignation tendered in February by Mayor Renato Usatii, who did so due to the constantly growing political pressure on Our Party and due to the criminal prosecutions of OP activists.