Chisinau, March 7 (Infotag). The Social Liberal Party and the National Liberal Party may unite yet before the forthcoming 2007 local election, SLP leader MP Oleg Serebrean announced at a news conference in Infotag today. He said the unification congress will be held on the Europe Day of May 9, and the unification should not necessarily lead to changing the SLP’s name: “We are presently in negotiations with [Vitalia Pavlicenco’s] National Liberal Party and some other political formations, such as e.g. the Party of the Humanists and the Alianta Verde, in order to nominate a common candidate for Chisinau Mayor. We do not know yet who this is going to be, but if the NLP-proposed candidate is better than ours, we shall support that candidature”. Serebrean said no negotiations are being held with the Liberal Party, but the SLP stands ready to support the LP candidate, Dorin Chirtoaca, for the capital city mayor. The SLP is going to hold the negotiations on a common candidate until no longer than April 1. The Liberal Party was the first of all political forces in Moldova to have announced its candidate for the Chisinau Mayor – Dorin Chirtoaca. Simultaneously, the LP announced it would be running the 2007 local election all by itself, and was not going to enter into negotiations with whatever other force. Later, party candidates were announced also by the parliamentary Democratic Party (MP Vladimir Filat) and extra-parliamentary Social Democratic Party (SDPM leader Eduard Musuc). …AND BELIEVES AMBASSADOR CARPOV’S REVOCATION IS EVIDENCE OF CRISIS IN MOLDOVA-EU RELATIONS Chisinau, March 12 (Infotag). The recalling of one of Moldova’s best diplomats, Ambassador to Brussels Eugen Carpov, indicates that Moldova’s relations with the European Union is in a shape far from the best one, presumes the Social Liberal Party leader, MP Oleg Serebrean. Speaking at the news conference in Infotag today, he voiced an opinion that the diplomat’s revocation is a result of the inefficient policy of Moldova’s integration into the European Union. “In late 2006, Mr. Carpov sent President Voronin a letter, in which the diplomat expressed his negative attitude to the integration policy waged by the Moldovan Ministry of Foreign Affairs and European Integration. That was certainly disliked by Minister Andrei Stratan, who demanded from the President to dismiss the Ambassador”, said Oleg Serebrean. In his words, the ongoing deterioration of the Moldova-Romania relations is also a testimony to the Communist Party’s losing the citizenry’s trust. “The last December’s election of governor in Gagauzia demonstrated that the Moldovan Communists are losing the trust of the Gagauzes as well as of the ethnic non-Moldovans as a whole. Seeing this, the ruling Communist Party unleashed this anti-Romanian campaign to save the sympathy of the Russian-speaking electorate on the verge of a local election”, presumed the SLP Chairman. He qualified the Communists’ attacks against Romania as “a profoundly erroneous conduct… As a result, the Republic of Moldova may lose not only the backing by Romania but also by the European Union. The official Bucharest is able to influence in a certain way the standing of Moldova's in the European community”.