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POPULAR ACTION GOING TO STRUGGLE TO THE VERY END
Chisinau. The Acţiunea Europeană [European Action] socio-political movement, which is being denied registration by the Ministry of Justice, is saying it may well decide to seek justice with the European Court of Human Rights by lodging a complaint against the Government of Moldova.
Sergiu Mocanu, the Movement leader and former Adviser-at-Large to President Vladimir Voronin, told a news conference in Infotag today that on Monday the Appeals Chamber left in force the MoJ decision to deny registration to the new organization because many of the citizens’ signatures, raised in its favor, were allegedly false.
Mocanu maintains the Ministry’s decision was definitely a political step, and the Acţiunea Europeană provided to the Appeals Chamber proofs that there was no ground for the Ministry of Justice to make such assertions.
“It goes without saying that we shall challenge this decision with the Supreme Court of Justice and subsequently, if need be, – with the European Court of Human Rights”, said the former presidential adviser.
In his words, the Appeals Chamber’s decision proves that President Vladimir Voronin “has exceeded all thinkable limits”. Mocanu presumes that in the conditions when the ruling clique keeps on behaving so anti-democratically, it may collapse, and not necessarily at an election.
“I do not really know what is better for President Vladimir Voronin and his ruling party – to collapse at an ordinary parliamentary election or, like it happened to Nicolae Ceausescu, after an election, say in autumn 2009”, said the Acţiunea Europeană leader.
He reaffirmed his resolution to “fight till the last breath for our registration. If need be, I shall organize a congress in the Great National Assembly Square, and people will come there and put their signatures in favor of the Acţiunea Europeană in the presence of the media and TV cameras to show the signatures are authentic. I don’t see another way out”.
Movement’s lawyer Ion Dron expressed his profound disappointment with the Appeals Chamber’s decision. He said, “If things in the Moldova judiciary system keep on developing like now, the profession of defender may come to be unnecessary in this republic… There are quite many judges in the system who act according to the ‘vertical of power’ rule, not according to the law. Many judges ran elections on party tickets, and now they have decorated their offices with politicians’ portraits, but do not have a Constitution volume at hand.”
