The Great National Assembly Council said that it assumed responsibility for the protests mounted under its aegis and called on the state institutions to immediately stop persecuting and investigating the protesters. It also asked to set free the political detainees and not to allow provocations in the future, both on the part of the coercive state institutions and of the non-state, paramilitary ones controlled by oligarch Vladimir Plahotniuc, IPN reports, quoting a statement by the Council.
The statement says that those who came to power after 2009 hid behind the European screen and took control of the Government, Parliament, the rule of law and regulatory institutions.
“The street protests were triggered by the stealing of US$1 billion from public money. The people could no longer endure and took to the streets in a large number. As in 2009, those who are in power do not accept the dialogue and do not want to free the state institutions. Such an attitude leads only to a tenser situation. Moreover, the way in which the Cabinet was voted in gives the people the right to protest and show their dissatisfaction. Everything has a limit,” reads the statement.
This also says that even if the protests organized by the Great National Assembly Council were always peaceful in character, the coercive institutions continue to intimidate, persecute and investigate protesters and to invent damage caused by these.
