Romanians from Bessarabia will not be represented in Romanian Parliament, Alexeev

Victor Alexeev, who ran in the December 9 elections for the Romanian Chamber of Deputies on behalf of the Social Liberal Union (USL), said that the Romanians from Bessarabia will not be represented in the Parliament of Romania because the MP who gained most of the votes in Bessarabia will be in the opposition, Info-Prim Neo reports. In a press briefing on December 10, Victor Alexeev said that most of the Romanians from the right bank of the Prut voted for the USL’s candidate. He considers that this is a categorical victory and that the Sunday’s elections brought the Basescu regime to an end. The USL’s candidate said that the Romanians from Moldova took part in the elections in a large number, but only about 10,000 persons managed to cast their ballots. During several hours while his team monitored a number of polling places, he saw how hundreds of persons who came to vote chose to go home before entering the polling booth. In some of the cases, the voters had to wait for 3-4 hours in the rain and wind. According to the USL team’s estimates, 10 polling places should have been established in Chisinau as the four polling places opened did not cope. Alexeev’s team blames the Romanian Ambassador in Chisinau Marius Lazurca for such a state of affairs because he made no approach to the Romanian Government to increase the number of polling places. According to the candidate, the President of Romania Traian Basescu is to blame for the division between the Romanians from the two banks of the Prut. Victor Alexeev said the party that he represents lost only a local battle, not yet the whole war. He is convinced that the new government will implement a large part of the points from his election program. He promised that he will continue to work for the benefit of the Romanians from Bessarabia. According to unofficial data, in the college within which Moldova voted, the largest number of votes for the Parliament of Romania were won by the ARD’s candidate Eugen Tomac.