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Message to the voters of the Peasants’ Christian Democratic Party of Moldova

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For 15 years, we have been living in an independent state. For 15 years, our people have been dealing with poverty and indigence. The Republic of Moldova is led by already the third President, four Parliaments have changed, and ministers are replaced every year, while life keeps getting worse. No statistics or pension raises could hide the truth that hundreds of thousands of our co-nationals, in fact, anybody who is able and wants to work leaves the country in search of a better life. What is happening, why do people abandon their homeland? Could Moldova indeed — with its hardworking people and rich lands — bear the destiny of Europe’s periphery? The destiny of a country, in which older people must freeze in the wintertime, while the young ones have a single real chance — in time, to replace their parents working abroad?

A new election campaign has started, and you, dear voters, have to pass through a new stress. Again, as four years ago, candidates will rotate in order to enumerate all misfortunes of our society; and again, they will touch your open wounds. Political parties, electoral blocs, various leaders are already blaming each other for all the evils done, proposing magic recipes. However, let us be pay attention, nobody answers the main question: why, after 15 years of reforms and democracy, the situation in the Republic of Moldova has not changed for better?

The Peasants’ Party states its conviction that the situation will not improve until proper justice is not done to our peasants.

For centuries, Moldova has been a country of peasants — not by accident have these two words, country and countryman the same origins. Generations after generations our ancestors and parents have worked our land as good farmers, raising their children with love for God and for their kin. In different times, they lived differently, but never, not even in the hardest times, did we have anything alike the exodus that we have today. All this is happening because after the achievement of freedom and independence, those who have ruled the country have not taken care of the main thing: to cast away the injustice towards those on whom our state lies upon, those who behold the real power in our country. Although there has been a lot of discussion during last years about paying back the debts to the peasants, nothing, in fact, has changed.

It would be naive to believe that the Republic of Moldova could work out the multitude of urgent problems faced thereby today without solving the problem of the peasants.

Stating “Justice for peasants”, the Peasants’ Party does not mean only the working people from the countryside. The program we hand out for the electors’ judgment provides an ample complex of measures in view of improving our situation in economy, in the social sphere, in education, and in culture. At this time, however, we would like to underline something else.

For 15 years, you, citizens of the Republic of Moldova, have been assisting the independent Moldovan state including by paying your taxes. All these years, you have been paying the maintenance of the Parliament, Government, President, and a huge army of officers from these and other institutions — the police, customs, judicial structures, etc. We do not even ask whether you are satisfied with their activity. The Peasants’ Party solely concludes the following fact: up to now, the national bureaucracy class alone has benefited from the regained independence. The rest of the population, on whose account the above-mentioned class has made different experiments under the disguise of the so-called “reforms”, has constantly been at a loss.

The discussions of our politicians about “strategic allies” — either Russia or Europe — are just pure talk. Because for a long time ahead, the Republic of Moldova will be regarded, both in the East and in the West, as a provider of cheap labor force. What kind of “European integration” can we talk about when our state has plunged in debts, and corruption, misappropriation of public funds as well as elementary robbery are flourishing in our country? Moreover, under the described circumstances, political leaders conduct a passionate fight for the right to take turns at the wheel of power. All our social categories are embraced by the feeling of despair and loss of any reality.

The Peasants’ Party declares that there is a way out! By saying “Justice for peasants”’ we want, for the beginning, to break the existent vicious circle, inside which different parties come to govern and leave, while the society remains unchanged. This vicious circle can be broken only by the development of a new system of country governing. Instead of a power pyramid that is compromised and too difficult to be maintained by the taxpayers, Moldova needs a completely new state mechanism, much less costly and in correspondence with the needs of ordinary citizens.

“Justice for peasants” means a new Parliament made up of 51 members (instead of the present 101), and each member is o be elected individually. How longer should people be fooled with electoral lists? People must know for whom they are voting, and who, namely presents their interests in the supreme legislative authority.

“Justice for peasants” means a president of the state elected by the entire nation. The right to elect the president must be withdrawn from the MPs and given back to the citizens. Moreover, in order to save the taxpayers’ money, the elections of the President must take place at the same time with the Parliamentary elections.

“Justice for peasants” means a government made of 6 ministries at the most (there are 16 ministries at present!), which means a drastic reduction, at least by half, in the number of state and custom officers, policemen — both in Chisinau and in the countryside.

“Justice for peasants” means the functioning of a State Peasants Bank that will grant loans to farmers at an annual rate of 5% (instead of 25% practiced by the commercial banks today).

“Justice for peasants” means remuneration worthy of the teachers’ work, of those that educate peasants’ children, work in schools and universities. It also means quality and free of charge medical services; solving of other urgent problems faced by thousands of our co-nationals — either residents of the Republic of Moldova or persons forced to leave the country to work abroad.

It is important to make the first step. The downsizing of the giant army of public officers would make millions of lei available, which would be used in spheres of vital importance for our citizens. In addition, to mention another aspect: the simple downsizing of the number of bureaucrats would inevitably lead to the diminishing of corruption, bribe taking, and of different taxes and interdictions that strangulate the Moldovan economy. The society will breathe relieved at last, and will feel an impulse towards development. The implementation of concrete programs could be started, without the fear that everything will remain “only on paper”, as it happens when the population is squeezed in the claws of the present bureaucratic system.

The Peasants’ Party is now setting as its main goal to cast away from power the national bureaucracy class in the Republic of Moldova and to develop a state mechanism under the control of people. For the first time in the history of the independent Moldova, we propose a series of changes that will not affect the interests of the people (on the contrary, the people will have only to benefit therefrom), but will hit the interests of those who have been experimenting at the people’s expense.

We know how to proceed and we have sufficient political will to solve the tasks we have set for ourselves. Honorable electors, the Peasants’ Party counts on your support.

Nicolae Andronic,
President of the PCDPM