Unaffiliated MP Valeriu Giletski will run independently in the October 30 presidential elections. In a press briefing at IPN, the MP said he decided to set up an initiative group for collecting signatures in support of his candidacy.
According to him, a wide range of options must be provided in the first round of the elections. After October 30, the people will know the candidate who deserves to be supported in the second round. “After almost 20 years, we will be again able to directly choose the country’s President. The multiple blockages and political crises through which we went imposed an urgent change of the constitutional framework concerning the election of the Head of State. More than 900 days and two rounds of early parliamentary elections were needed to choose the outgoing President,” stated Valeriu Giletski.
He noted that Moldova urgently needs a Head of State who would aim to ensure peace and the welfare of the whole nation, not to promote party or group interests, who would reunify society that is divided artificially for political goals. “We need a President who would be a real mediator between the country’s political forces so as not to allow the political struggle between these to affect society. We need a President that would restore the people’s confidence in the state institutions,” stated the MP. According to him, free and fair elections that would offer the possibility of a real choice are needed for choosing such a Head of State.
The detailed electoral program of Valeriu Giletski will be made public later.
Valeriu Giletski was chosen as a member of Parliament on the Liberal-Democratic ticket on April 5, 2009. He was excluded from the PLDM this April after he voted several Parliament decisions with which his group disagreed. Valeriu Giletski is the secretary of the parliamentary commission on external policy and European integration and a member of Moldova’s delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe.
