The just renamed Red Bloc party will participate in the June 14 local elections under its old name – “Our Home is Moldova” (OHM).

 

RB leader Grigore Petrenco, a former Communist MP, said at a news conference at Infotag today that at the 3rd congress of the OHM, held on May 10, it was decided to rename the party into the Red Bloc and to adopt a Program based largely on the documents approved by the Communist Party yet in 2008.

 

Petrenco explained that the Red Bloc will take part in the forthcoming elections under its old name because a probability is high that the Ministry of Justice may not wish to register the new party name.

 

According to him, there are quite many people in the Red Bloc who left the Communist Party at various times.

 

“At the Left segment of the country’s political spectrum, there simply must be a political party that would struggle against the incumbent ruling regime, and “Our Home is Moldova” (Red Bloc) may become such a party. We are being supported by Communists from other European countries”, said the chairman.

 

In his words, the party has embarked on a serious work, is going to actively develop and struggle against the anti-popular ruling regime. A proof to this is the presence of “political prisoners Pavel Grigorciuc and Mikhail Amerberg, waging their struggle against the regime” among the top 5 names on the party list of candidates for the Chisinau Municipal Council [city legislature].

 

Grigore Petrenco is now working hard to obtain permission from the Chisinau Primaria [city government] for placing billboards that will carry the slogans that will certainly be hated by the country rulers and city fathers – “It will be better without Filat”, “It will be better without Plahotniuc”, “It will be better without Chirtoaca”.

 

In his opinion, such texts will look refreshingly if placed next to the main billboard, which Mayor Dorin Chirtoaca and his Liberal Party have erected in practically every street reading “It will be better in the European Union”.

 

“The authorities are saying that our billboards have an insulting character. But we are convinced that Moldova citizens will really feel better without those gentlemen who have usurped all industrial enterprises and all state institutions in the country. I am going to address to the Central Election Commission for permission to place our billboards. If the CEC says no, we shall apply to the court”, said Grigore Petrenco.

 

Another problem is the interference by the National Tax Inspectorate, “staffed mostly with Filat’s people”, into the party’s election fund that was registered only last Friday.

 

“Due to this, the party cannot conduct its election campaign”, stated Grigore Petrenco, an ex-Deputy Chairperson of the Unified European Left group in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe.