Chisinau, January 12 (Infotag). Moldovan Communist Party candidates for Parliament, Grigore Petrenko and George Benderschi, convened a news conference in Infotag today and accused the Chisinau Municipality of using the so-called ‘administrative resources’ in favor of opposition formations – the Democratic Moldova voting bloc [headed by Chisinau Mayor Serafim Urechean], the Christian Democratic Popular Party, and the Social Democratic Party.

Petrenko claimed the Municipality had booked the city’s central square for the entire election campaign period for holding various rallies and other mass-scale actions by these three political forces. He regards this as “usurping of power by the Municipality, whose officials command the central square as if this were their personal property”.

Benderschi stood up in defense of the political feelings of those Moldovans who do not support the said 3 parties: “What will these people be feeling when walking across the square when it will be used by rallies? Should they be listening how the crowd is shouting dirty words and insults against the person’s favorite party? I think all this is a violation of human rights. And, in general, who is Mr. Rosca [CDPP leader] as such? Does he really has such great merits before the nation to shout things in the country’s central square?”

George Benderschi believes that despite all efforts by the opposition to behave like and look like their Ukrainian colleagues, another “orange revolution”, in Moldova, is out of the question.

“Ukraine had a constructive opposition which came to the broad masses of population with sound arguments in hands. In Moldova, such kind of scenario will not work, because the authorities here act differently, and because citizens feel positive changes going around”, he said.

Both candidates stated they would take their comrades out to picket the City Hall on January 15 in order to demand that no administrative resource is used in favor of concrete election participants.