The Party of Socialists of the Republic of Moldova (PSRM) will mount a protest ‘against the oligarchs from power’ on September 27. The party’s leader Igor Dodon told a news conference that the protest will be staged in concert with the political party “Our Party” and other organizations and will be held with no political flags, but only with the flag of Stephan the Great and with that of the Republic of Moldova, IPN reports.
Igor Dodon said the decision to mount protests was taken following the lack of reaction to the Socialists’ appeal to convene an extraordinary sitting of Parliament and due to the disastrous situation created in the country as a result of the stealing of the US$1billion, the rise in tariffs and other acts by the government. The protesters will demand that the head of state should be elected directly by the people, that early legislative elections be held and that the administration of a number of institutions, including the Central Election Commission, the National Bank of Moldova and the Prosecutor General’s Office, should be dismissed.
The leader of the PSRM stated that this Sunday the protesters will move in a column through the city and at 2pm will go before the Parliament Building, where they will state their demands. Protests will be held on a permanent basis, including with tents, until Parliament resigns and all protesters’ demands are satisfied. Dodon called on the people to join in the protest as this is the only possibility of freeing the captured state. “This protest will be the beginning of the ‘end’ of the oligarchs from power,” he stated.
Protests organized by the Civic Platform “Dignity and Truth” are now staged round-the-clock in the Great National Assembly Square of Chisinau. The protesters pitched tents there after the large-scale protests mounted on September 6, which, according to the organizers, brought together about 100,000 people in the central square of Chisinau.
