news agency Infotag

AEI CAUSES DISAPPOINTMENT DEEPER THAN COMMUNISTS DID – MOCANU

The governing Alliance for European Integration is causing in citizens a disappointment even greater than the Communist Party did during its 8 years of country governance [2001-2009], presumes Popular Action Movement leader Sergiu Mocanu, who has organized and launched and is persistently continuing a campaign called “Moldova without Mafia. Moldova without Plahotniuc”.   

Mocanu convened a news conference in Infotag today and offered an opinion that the low voter turnout at the September 5 constitutional referendum was a convincing proof that Moldova citizens are disappointed with their current rulers and their inability to oppose to mafia clans.  

“When the Communists were in power, they kept mafia under control. Now the situation is much worse because both the Communist opposition and the authorities are seeking to tame mafia and control it, instead of rooting it out, as if they don’t understand that the Moldovan mafia, aka the Plahotniuc mafia, itself wants to control the Moldovan Government”, said Sergiu Mocanu.     

He is convinced that if only the AEI leaders had joined his anti-mafia campaign, the referendum outcome would be totally different.  

“Alas, our citizenry perceived the campaign as a trivial settling scores between politicians, so most citizens punished the authorities by ignoring their referendum. The plebiscite has shown the Communists have strengthened their positions, and now have all chances to return into power”, stated Sergiu Mocanu, who was Adviser-at-Large to President Vladimir Voronin for several years during his tenure, and who is now Voronin’s mortal political enemy.    

Razvan Paveliu, ex-Director of 2Plus television channel, said that many citizens of Moldova have got deeply disappointed with the authorities after the referendum and are considering emigrating from the country. He accused the governing alliance of its doing nothing to annihilate communism in Moldova, and of its utter inefficiency in fulfilling their election pledges.   

Daniela Bodrug, Chairperson of the European Values Without Borders non-governmental organization, explained the referendum failure as follows:  the Moldovan youth decided to boycott the referendum in protest that the authorities have stolen the young generation’s revolution of April 7, 2009, and that the government has betrayed the youth.  

Sergiu Mocanu promised that next week he will make public a plan of combating mafia, “and this struggle shall not end even after the early parliamentary elections”.