Representatives of the National Resistance Movement ACUM shared the resolution adopted in the protest that was mounted in central Chisinau on July 1 to MPs in the morning of July 5, before the Parliament sitting. They asked the MPs to fulfil the three demands stipulated in the resolution, namely that the early mayoral elections held in Chisinau should be validated, that the mixed-member electoral system be annulled and that the judges who decided to invalidate the elections should be held accountable, IPN reports.
Secretary general of the Party “Action and Solidarity” Igor Grosu said that this way they decided to exert pressure on the MPs so that these intervene and contribute to fulfilling the demands formulated by the protesters. “We call on them to make effort and intervene so as to help invalidate the elections in Chisinau by simply interpreting that ambiguous article. We also demand to annul the mixed electoral system and to take attitude to the interference by the judiciary in the electoral process by the adopted decisions that led to the nullification of the elections in Chisinau,” he stated.
Inga Grigoriu, deputy head of the Party “Platform Dignity and Truth”, said their event is also aimed at the police officers whose number at the July 1 protest was very large, especially near the head office of the Democratic Party. That building is a privately owned one and belongs to a person who does not hold a government post. Therefore, the several thousand police officers paid with public money, who guarded the PDM’s head office, fulfilled an illegal order. “They should safeguard the interests of the citizens, not of a person or a narrow group of persons,” stated Inga Grigoriu.
The leader of the Liberal Party Mihai Ghimpu, coming to the Parliament sitting, approached the participants in the event, but these booed him and called him a traitor.
“This is a band of Topa and Nastase, who forced shareholders of “Victoriabank” to sell them their shares. This band manipulates and misleads the people. They want power only in order to take revenge, but the people who watch Jurnal TV know nothing and believe what they say on this channel. As you know, I and my parliamentary group didn’t vote for the introduction of the mixed system. Why do they label me then? This is a proof of the fact that our people are misled and manipulated. Instead of supporting those who work and struggle for them, they vote together with an oligarch and then with another one and together with a thief and then with another and live as they live, regrettably,” Mihai Ghimpu told the press.
The resolution adopted in the Great National Assembly Square on July 1 says that if the authorities will not fulfil the three demands during the current session of Parliament, civil disobedience actions will follow.
