Chisinau, October 30 (Infotag). The Patria-Moldova Party, in the making at present, presumes that the Ministry of Justice’s refusal to register the results and decisions of the organization’s constituent congress a month ago has a political background behind it, not juridical one.

As Infotag has already reported, last month the then Patria-Rodina Labor Union decided at its congress to unite with the Patria-Moldova organization of Moldovan gastarbeiters in Russia, to name the new united organization as Patria-Moldova, and to elect Andrei Tarna as its leader.

The Labor Union’s ex-leader and currently Patria-Moldova Deputy Chairman [and former Minister of Education] Gheorghe Sima told a news conference in Infotag today the MoJ offered the following explanation why the new formation would not be registered: Patria-Moldova failed to produce all necessary documents, and did not publish a party renaming notification in the Monitorul Oficial governmental paper, as is envisaged by law.

Sima qualified the explanation as unfounded and said the Communist authorities are simply afraid of having one more rival on the political arena – a formation which mercilessly criticizes the Communist Government for the current socio-economic situation in Moldova, and which is calling Left forces to consolidation for the approaching 2009 parliamentary elections.

Gheorghe Sima stated the authorities hate Andrei Tarna’s continuous criticizing of the government’s migration policy. Tarna resides in Moscow but entered, by means of the Internet, into a conversation with the journalists present at the news conference. He stated, for instance, that Moldova has been “in a totalitarian chaos”, and confirmed his intention to go in for politics in earnest in order to improve the situation in this republic. He believes that the Transnistrian Moldovan Republic should be first recognized officially, and only after that it would be possible to negotiate the formation of a confederation with Moldova.

Gheorghe Sima said Andrei Tarna cannot come to Chisinau “because the local authorities have initiated ungrounded proceedings against him on charges of actions aimed at undermining the statehood of Moldova”. Patria-Moldova activists believe their leader may well be arrested here, so he should better stay away.