​ACUM MP PRESUMES DEMOCRATS MAY BE SO GENEROUS BY ORDER RECEIVED FROM ABOVE

MP Iurie Renita of the political bloc ACUM offered a supposition that DP deputies may well have sacrificed their March salaries by order from “the palace in Armeneasca Street [i.e. from the Democratic Party Headquarters]”.

Speaking at a news conference on Thursday, Renita reminded that he had remained unemployed for a year and a half “thanks to the solicitous Democrats”, but he did not disclose details. As is known, at the end of 2017 Iurie Renita was recalled home as the Republic of Moldova’s Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Belgium, Luxemburg and to the NATO Headquarters. The diplomat, having more than 20 years’ experience in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and European Integration, was not offered any other job by the governing Democratic Party upon his return home.

The deputy voiced conviction that donating for charity is a personal choice and decision of every person, and that such things may not indeed be done on behalf of a political party. As far as this concrete donation is concerned, he does not think that it can serve a criterion of high morals or honesty “because Ilan Shor can sacrifice millions after stealing a billion”.

“Charity done without loud publicity is much more valuable than one announced in public”, said Iurie Renita.

His ACUM colleague Vladimir Bolea said that he had given his first parliamentary pay to his mother to let her pay her utility bills.

“Voters are waiting not donations but concrete actions from deputies. That’s why we are calling on all parliamentarians, not only on Socialists, to begin working to de-oligarchize and rescue the country and its state institutions”, said MP Bolea.

Earlier this month, ACUM Co-Chairperson Andrei Nastase expressed regret that the first, constituent plenary meeting of the new Parliament was suspended for an uncertain time, due to which the forum’s governing bodies would not be formed. He also remarked with discontent that over last days and even weeks, he has not seen in the Parliament Building the deputies of other factions, except of the ACUM bloc.

Nastase said on local television a few days ago that his first parliamentary salary for 10 working days in March amounted to nearly 3,000 lei, “which I initially wanted to sacrifice for the restoration of the Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris. But then I changed my mind, for I thought it would be perceived as a cheap PR step”.