MARK TKACHUK REGARDS PSRM TO BE A MONARCHIST ORGANIZATION

One of the founders of the “Collective Action Party – Civilian Congress” Mark Tkachuk says he does not regard the President Dodon’s Party of Socialists (PSRM) a left-wing organization.

Speaking on the local television on Thursday night, he offered an opinion that “in Moldova, there is no left political segment as such that would wage struggle for the interests of an absolute majority of the population, and there is not a single political party that would conduct a consistent policy to defend citizens’ interests”.

Tkachuk called the PSRM “a party of rich people, who have smuggled themselves into the left field in due time”.

“Can a monarchist party call itself a left-wing organization? Simply, imitation parties have appeared in the country that are running around with flags resembling the red one, repeating some familiar slogans. Meanwhile, their leaders are putting on weight, stuffing their pockets with money, fixing up their children and other relatives on cozy posts. The PSRM has chosen the worst form of continuing the Communist Party’s traditions”, said Mark Tkachuk, the former chief ideologist of the Communist Party.

Nevertheless, Tkachuk does not equate President Igor Dodon and the PSRM: “Of course, this is not the same. The PSRM has quite many people, who have never belonged to other organizations. They are not turncoats, and they did not run from the opposition over to power. And many of them are sincere people”.

Touching on his organization’s attitude to the Party of Action and Solidarity (PAS), Mark Tkachuk said that Civilian Congress representatives liked a certain consistency in Maia Sandu’s actions, “but one day she committed a tremendous, systemic blunder by cancelling the results of the contest for recruiting a Prosecutor General, and she thus gave an excellent pretext to President Dodon to discharge the Sandu Government”.

Mark Tkachuk also doubts about possible cooperation with the DA Platform. He called its leader Andrei Nastase “a dull-witted and dependent politician”.

Speaking of the Democratic Party, Tkachuk offered an opinion that it ought to be closed down. And concerning the Civilian Congress’ possible interaction with Renato Usatii’s Our Party, he said: “This is already closer to us. Our Party has very many normal sincere people, who suffered so many ordeals during the period of victimization of their organization”.