The Congress of Russian Communities of Moldova and the Ravnopraviye [Equal Rights] Socio-Political Movement have stood up with support of the DA Platform’s demand to dismiss the current Moldovan Government, Parliament and President.

 

Valery Klimenko, who heads these two organizations, stated at a news conference in Infotag on Thursday that Moldova’s national minorities stand up for removing the incumbent representatives of these power branches.

 

“We stand for full reformatting of power in Moldova, and I will explain why. The current lineup of the Parliament is illegitimate because it was elected with gross violations of the law and election rules. This illegitimate Parliament has appointed a government, which is therefore also illegitimate”, said Klimenko.

 

He emphasized that over last 6 years, not a single representative of Moldova’s national minorities, constituting about one-third of the country’s population, has been included into the Government of Moldova.

 

“This fact demonstrates the country rulers’ attitude to us the ethnic Ukrainians, Russians, Poles, Bulgarians, Gagauz and Jewish peoples and dozens of other ethnic minorities. The presence of Gagauzia Bashkan in the Cabinet does not count here: the governor of the Gagauzia autonomy is a member of Government automatically, in virtue of position according to the Constitution. And that’s all – not a single one from national minorities”, said Valery Klimenko.

 

The leader of the Congress of Russian Communities reminded that yet in 2010 the United Nations Organization passed a special Resolution on the position of national minorities in Moldova, having criticized the policy of ignoring the minorities in this republic.

 

“Against this shameful background, the head of our state, the so-called President Nicolae Timofti, keeps silence. We have very many questions to how he was elected. And there are not fewer questions to his political stance and outlooks and to his popularity. How can one trust in a president whose popularity rating does not exceed 2%? He must tender resignation, too”, believes Valery Klimenko.

 

He wondered why on earth the authorities don't go when they see that their citizens have been protesting against them for nearly two weeks. He believes this is a convincing illustration that the rulers do not wish to hear the people’s opinion.

 

“Therefore, it is worthwhile to proceed to tougher measures of influence on the authorities such as blockading of the Parliament, Government, power structures etc. This power must go”, stated Klimenko.