The people who on June 24 gathered together in central Chisinau to demand that the election of Andrei Nastase as mayor should be validated adopted a draft resolution by which they seek the validation of the election. According to the resolution, if the government avoids doing it, peaceful protests against the actions that undermine the people’s wish will be mounted in accordance with the preamble to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, IPN reports.

Under the resolution, Article 2 of the Constitution says the national sovereignty belongs to the people of the Republic of Moldova and no private individual, people’s group, social or political group or another public organization can exercise power in the state in the own name. The usurpation of power in the state is the most serious crime against the people.

“Even if the citizens  of Chisinau on May 20 and June 3 this year voted and chose Andrei Nastase as mayor general of Chisinau municipality with over 52% of the poll, the Plahotniuc regime, in collusion with the Party of Socialists that is informally managed by President Igor Dodon, though the agency of the justice system they control, nullified the results of the elections held in Chisinau. This is an unconstitutional, illegal decision that means the end of democracy in the Republic of Moldova,” says the resolution.

This also says that no legally expressed vote can be annulled and neglected and, given that the Plahotniuc regime resorted to such an unprecedented gesture in the history of the Republic of Moldova, this shows that dictatorship is officially established. The Plahotniuc regime’s unprecedented announcements of the annulment of the people’s will were vehemently condemned by the European Union, the Unites States of America and Romania and, consequently, the Republic of Moldova remains practically isolated from the rest of the world.

The demonstrators said the protests will continue until the election of Andrei Nastase is validated.

The wave of protests started after the Chisinau City Court on June 19 decided to not validate the early mayoral elections held in the capital city and later the Appeal Court upheld the invalidation. The protests will continue today, June 25, at the Supreme Court of Justice, where the decisive hearing in the case of the validation of the election of Andrei Nastase as mayor of Chisinau will start at 3:30pm.