The Republic of Moldova needs radical reforms in practically all fields, but first and foremost in public administration and finance, maintain the founders and activists of one more political organization that has just emerged in the small country – the Progressive Society Party.

Its Chairman Marin Livadaru told a news conference at Infotag today that the organization was registered by the Ministry of Justice only on September 24 – nine days after the registration deadline, so it may not run for parliament. “We will concentrate on the all-republican local elections due in May 2015, namely on mayoral election in Chisinau”, said Livadaru. The corner stones of the new party’s ideology will be: compulsory rotation of staffs personnel in all public institutions – from village administrations to top power echelons; and active involvement of the youth in the nation’s public life and implementation of reforms.

“In Moldova, it has become a vicious tradition to grab state posts and chairmanships in political parties. Look, same unchangeable personalities have been governing the country for 23 years now, so it is no wonder that the country has been jogging on the spot, making no headway. Talented and successful young people leave their native country as they can see no perspectives for their future. But the most awful thing is that this precious segment of the Moldovan society practically never returns home, getting settled in European countries or Russia forever, building their future in foreign countries”, said Livadaru. In his opinion, a vicious system has developed in Moldova when commercial banks serve the interests not of the population but of banks’ major shareholders and owners and their relatives.

“In politics and in the financial sphere, a handful of people pursue their own selfish interests, subduing the entire society and whole republic to them. Throughout the independence years, the Moldovan state has been remaining in stagnation.

The elderly die out – young people run away – the country gets increasingly depopulated”, said Marin Livadaru. He believes that the development vectors being advertised by current political elites – that the nation goes either into the European Union or the Customs Union – are but a trap for inexperienced voters.

“We need to find a third way, and there is such a way – a stable cooperation with all i.e. with Europe and with our traditional friends and many-year partners from Russia. Also, Moldova has to get rid of ethnic strife that was generated by local politicians who keep nourishing and feeding it. Only a harmonic coexistence of ethnic Moldovans, Romanians, Russians, Ukrainians, Bulgarians and Gagauzes can bring the republic to prosperity”, stressed Marin Livadaru.