Democratic Action Party against AEI’s proposal

The Democratic Action Party (PAD) rejects the proposal to initiate the constitutional referendum in the form proposed by the Alliance for European Integration. “Those from the AEI try to profit from the chaos they created themselves in the mind and souls of the people by these calls and the adapted proposals to solve the crisis,” PAD vice president According to Corneliu Gurin, the referendum initiated by the parliamentary parties is in fact a request that the people should renounce democracy and its power to take decisions. “We plead for restoring the people’s sovereignty by ensuring the direct election of Moldova’s President,” he stated. The Democratic Action Party is categorically against reducing the election threshold. It considers that the current threshold of 61 votes of MP is a guarantee of democracy. “I did not see the legal norm and what the MPs propose, but they made it clear that the election threshold will be reduced. We believe the current constitutional norm shouldn’t be amended hazardously and shouldn’t be put to the vote so quickly,” said Corneliu Gurin. The PAD condemns the three AEI parties’ attempt to avoid the dissolution of Parliament, which did not manage to elect the head of state and resolve the political crisis. Corneliu Gurin also said that the intention to hold a referendum has only one goal – to keep the political forces that entered Parliament in power. The period proposed by the AEI for holding the referendum, April, is also unfavorable. The PAD calls upon the AEI member parties to abandon the idea of holding the referendum and to use all the constitutional ways possible to unlock the crisis, without performing new and dangerous experiments. If the presidential elections fail, all the parties in Parliament and the opposition must recognize their inability to do something and assume responsibility for causing early elections, said Corneliu Gurin.