The National Liberal Party (PNL) intends to sue the Ministry of Justice for delaying the procedure for registering the party’s statutes. Minister of Justice Oleg Efrim considers the move is aimed at attracting public attention, Info-Prim Neo reports. According to a communiqué from the PNL, the next days the party’s representatives will file an application to the Administrative Panel of the Chisinau Court of Appeals as the PNL is regularly harassed. “The PNL describes this fact as persecution of the pro-Romania and pro-unionist parties. This is regrettable in the situation when the country is ruled by non-Communist forces. The PNL won the case concerning the unionist advertisement and hopes it will be as successful in defending the political objective set in the party’s statutes,” it is said in the communiqué. Contacted by Info-Prim Neo, Oleg Efrim said that any person and party can go to court to defend their rights. “We appealed to the Constitutional Court because the situation is not very simple. We are waiting for the Court’s decision and will act appropriately. If Missis Pavlichenko (Vitalia Pavlichenko, the PNL’s leader, e.n.) does not want to understand this, but wants to attract attention by involving the Ministry of Justice in a trial, she can do it,” he stated. On January 17, the Ministry of Justice informed the PNL that it cannot register the party’s statutes and that it asked the Constitutional Court to interpret Article 41, paragraph (4) of the Constitution concerning the freedom of the parties and other sociopolitical organizations. A point of the statutes says that the PNL is for Moldova’s union with Romania.