The Democratic Party (PDM) considers the accusations made by the leader of the Liberal Party (PL) Mihai Ghimpu in the public sphere are an expression of a powerful emotive state, not of a political attitude. The party noted that these allegations lack credibility and are unfounded, IPN reports.
In a press release, the PDM says the Liberal Party started to make accusations when investigations into cases of corruption that involved representatives of the PL were opened as a result of repeated and insistent signaling of cases of corruption in state institutions, in particular the Chisinau City Hall, by society. “We consider such cases should be solved by legal ways, not by politicizing them and not by denigration campaigns or political pressure,” says the press release.
Liberal Party chairman Mihai Ghimpu, in the talk show “In Depth” on Pro TV Chisinau channel, said their party will not delegate representatives to work on the commission that will create single-member constituencies for the parliamentary elections. Mihai Ghimpu said that even if the PL was a government partner of the Democratic Party, the latter discussed the draft law not with the Liberals, but with the Socialists. “We challenged this law in the Constitutional Court and do not recognize anything. It is unconstitutional,” stated the Liberal leader.
He wondered what kind of democracy will be there when an MP reaches Parliament with 600 vote gained, while another one with 30,000 votes and what equal voting rights have the citizens from the right side of the Nistru and those from the left side. “That’s why, after the elections of 1990 that were based on the uninominal system, owing to the situation on the left side of the Nistru we switched over to the party-list proportional representation system,” said Mihai Ghimpu.
