TWO PROTEST ACTIONS HELD SIMULTANEOUSLY BEFORE GOVERNMENT BUILDING

On Thursday, the Right-wing pro-European parliamentary political bloc ACUM organized before the Government Building an action of protest against sharply grown prices on many essential foodstuffs and on oil products. Simultaneously with it, another protesting was held nearby – by those who stated they disagreed with the Right opposition’s actions.

The ACUM manifestation involved over one hundred people, including both bloc chairpersons Andrei Nastase and Maya Sandu. The protesters unfolded posters reading “Down with high prices”, “Down with cartel arrangements” and the like, and were chanting “Plahotniuc – to prison”, “No to mafia” etc.

PAS MP Radu Marian spoke out “grounded suspicions” that the recent surge of fuel prices was the product of a cartel collusion by importers. And DA Platform parliamentarian Alexandru Slusari assessed the grown prices on foodstuffs as “a specimen of the economic model built by mafia in Moldova”.

“The incumbent ruling regime spits on the interests of domestic producers and Moldovan consumers. Against the background of growing potato imports, Moldovan agriculturists are forced to close down production due to unbearable business-running conditions. Vlad Plahotniuc’s dream is to convert Moldova into a global offshore, into a magnet for dirty money and into Europe’s cesspool”, stated the opposition politician.

And the counter-manifestation gathered about a hundred people as well, who were waving posters containing insults against Maya Sandu and Andrei Nastase. The Government Building was protected by a considerable strength of well-equipped police officers whose number was not inferior to that of the protesters.

DA Platform leader Andrei Nastase stated that the anti-ACUM action was organized jointly by Plahotniuc, Dodon and Shor.

“This alliance of traitors is killing democracy in Moldova. Instead of working for the good of those who have elected him president, Igor Dodon is a servant to Plahotniuc – out of fear. But the regime’s accomplices are so few, just a handful, while free people are many. And that’s why the criminal regime is doomed”, believes Alexandru Slusari.