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The chief of state, leader of the Party of Communists of the Republic of Moldova (PCRM) and candidate to the Parliament, Vladimir Voronin, has participated in the opening of an aqueduct in Iargara city, Leova district. Taking part in the event was also the minister of environment and natural resources, Violeta Ivanov, candidate to the Parliament. Later, Moldovan President Vladimir Voronin attended the reopening of the Cultural House in Hagimus village, Causeni rayon, renovated within the national programme on reanimation of cultural facilities. (Source: Moldpres reports)

The Liberal Democratic Party of Moldova (PLDM) organised an ample meeting called “Do not Be Afraid of Voting” in the Great National Assembly Square on March 22, which brought together more than 30,000 people, members and supporters of PLDM from all country. The action aimed to encourage people to get rid of fear and vote accordingly to their political visions. In an address to participants in the meeting aimed to support a free and fair parliamentary scrutiny, PLDM chairman Vlad Filat said that the regime of general Voronin has built a state based on personal dictatorship, terror and fear. “The time to say a decisive «No» to humiliation, poverty and injustice has come. We have the duty to explain to every citizen that our country cannot be ruled by fear and terror any longer. Let’s vote on April 5 a free and democratic Moldova in which rights of people will be respected.” (Source: PLDM press release)

Participants in the meeting held by the Liberal Democratic Party of Moldova (PLDM) in the Great National Assembly Square in Chisinau on March 22, 2009 called upon all Moldovans entitled to vote from everywhere: “Fellow citizens, we will decide the fate of the Republic of Moldova and of each of us on April 5. On this day, the governing will be in our hands. We will decide through voting to whom to entrust it for four years in order to protect our interests and ensure a normal life to us. Willingness and courage are needed to make a wise decision. We must get rid of the fear brought by those who revived the communism in our country and turned the fear in rule and system. We will be alone in front of our awareness in the polling booth. Before applying the stamp «voted» we will ask ourselves one more time why we are living in the poorest country in Europe? We will think about parents, our brothers and sisters who are slaves abroad, about humiliations they face to maintain us. There in the polling booth we will remember the way the Voronin regime has ridiculed us in all these years, how we have been lied, humiliated and betrayed. We will look behind for the last time, not to stay in the past but to get rid of it forever. And we will feel ourselves relieved of fear. We will show on April 5 that we are not afraid of dictatorship any longer and will vote the team which represents our expectations the most. We will vote the Oak! We will vote the Liberal Democratic Party of Moldova, so that the next day we will be capable to regard our children in their eyes and will have our hearts at ease that we brought the Spring in the Republic of Moldova.” (Source: PLDM press release)

Participants in the meeting held by the Liberal Democratic Party of Moldova (PLDM) on March 22 adopted a resolution which reads: “The communist governing has built a regime based on fear and terror in the Republic of Moldova in the last 8 years. Defying constitutional norms, the Voronin clan has subordinated all branches of the governing and set up a system of marginalisation and harassment of all those who do not support the communist governing. The Prosecutor’s Office, Information and Security Service, CCCEC, Interior Ministry and the media affiliated to governing were involved in this campaign. Staff comb-out on political criteria, public defamation of uncomfortable persons, opening of criminal charges, harassment of political opponents and free media have become distinct features of the police state built by the communists. The authoritarian regime of the Voronin clan is hiding itself behind human-faced communism and European integration slogans… We firmly condemn pressures of the communist regime on people and its actions of intimidation, harassment and assault on political adversaries and demand: immediately stop abuses, intimidations and defamation of political adversaries and citizens who have a critical attitude over communist governing; strictly respect the Election Code and Audiovisual Code; non-involvement of police bodies in political process; opening of polling stations in countries which are compactly resided by Moldovan nationals who do not have conditions to cast their ballots; stop using the media as an anti-opposition tool; investigate assaults on representatives of electoral contestants, vandalisation of electoral billboards and punish the guilty in line with effective legislation. We notify the internal and international public opinion in connection with frauds committed by the communist regime in Moldova to preserve the governing through fear and terror. We invite all good-faith people to join a decisive effort aimed to remove the anachronic and authoritarian regime of the Voronin clan through the power of vote.” (Source: PLDM press release)

The chairman of “Moldova Noastra” (Our Moldova) Alliance (AMN), Serafim Urechean, has greeted Crin Antonescu over his election as President of the National Liberal Party (PNL) of Romania: “I and my AMN fellows wish you good luck, all the more so as we stake on developing cooperation between our parties which have earlier signed an agreement in this respect. Being together members to the European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party, we think that we shall act more energetically, so that the enlargement of the European civilisation to which Romania has gone back to shortly cover the Republic of Moldova as well in terms of values and institutions. This is the National Idea for AMN, which guides us and for which we will win the parliamentary elections on April 5, 2009. We also want to greet Mr. Calin Popescu Tariceanu for successfully imposing the PNL on Romanian political scene, achieving a stable governing in an absolutely complicated period, proving both ability and efficiency of liberal solutions in reform times. We were very glad to cooperate and we hope to develop relations between AMN and PNL on this basis.” (Source: AMN press release)

The deputy chairwoman of the Social Democratic Party (PSD), Loretta Handrabura, has said in a press release that she “quits the Social Democratic Party, to which consolidation in the PSDM formula I have contributed as a common member starting 1992 and ran diverse offices starting September 2000: chairwoman of the Organisation of Women (2000–2007), member to the Political Bureau, chairwoman of the National Council (2006–2008). The withdrawal means resignation as PSD deputy chairwoman for social affairs, member to the Political Bureau and National Council. The reasons of my decision are: I do not find myself anymore in the present PSD team; I cannot accept some principles, values and initiatives which were and are promoted in the ongoing electoral campaign, contravene to the Statute, Programme and Electoral Platform and do not correspond to my political convictions and values.”