DEMOCRATS NOT GOING TO PROVIDE EXPLANATIONS OF THEIR BEHAVIOR LAST JUNE

The now opposition Democratic Party shall not provide whatever explanations to its political opponents, "who have usurped power in Moldova". That was how DP Chairman Pavel Filip commented today on the invitation, made by the parliamentary ad hoc commission for investigation of the June 2019 putsch circumstances, to three DP parliamentarians to come for commission hearings on October 8.

Former Moldovan Prime Minister Pavel Filip stated to the press that in its actions in the period of June 8-14, then-governing Democratic Party "was acting strictly in conformity with the legislation in force and the Constitution".

"DP members shall not take part in the cheap theatrical show [parliamentary investigation]. The criminal litigations being initiated against our party comrades on the coalition's political orders, the activities of the parliamentary investigation commissions, blackmail and pressing - all these are but wretched attempts to intimidate the opposition", Pavel Filip stated, and reminded that in the PACE Resolution adopted on Thursday, the European parliamentarians recommended the Moldovan authorities to respect and observe the opposition's rights.

The parliamentary ad hoc commission for investigation of the coup attempt organized by the Democratic Party with the help of its Constitutional Court and Prosecutor General's Office on June 8-14, 2019 [as the body's full name reads] has today invited three Democrats to its hearings scheduled for October 8 - Igor Vremea, Sergiu Sirbu and Vladimir Cebotari, who was de-immunized by parliament on the request of the Prosecutor General's Office.

In those June days, upon the formation of the parliamentary PSRM-ACUM majority and the appointment of the Government of Prime Minister Maya Sandu, the Government Building, ministries and other governmental agencies were blocked by police units and the so-called 'protesters'. The then-Constitutional Court recognized the Parliament's decisions and actions as unlawful, and for about one week the country lived in the conditions of a diarchy, when there were two governments - the new one headed by Maia Sandu and the old one presided by Pavel Filip. The crisis resolved on June 14, when the Democratic Party, under the pressure of Moldova's international partners, announced its stepping down from power. The new Government then received the possibility to start working in normal conditions.