The leader of the opposition Liberal Democratic Party of Moldova (LDPM), former Moldovan Prime Minister Vladimir Filat has condemned the Chisinau regime for establishing a dictatorship in the country.
Vladimir Filat said that the ruling Action and Solidarity party promotes its own dictatorship under the pretext of democratic processes in the country. The former Moldovan prime minister said that the intervention of the Commission for Emergency Situations in the electoral process is inadmissible.
“We condemn the dictatorship of the ruling party hidden behind the imitation of democracy. We condemn the authorities’ pressure on opposition candidates and on voters. Interference of the EC in the electoral process is unacceptable. And we condemn the way the current election campaign was conducted and the way the country has been governed over the last two years,” Filat wrote on Facebook.
Moldova held general local elections, during which the heads of localities, members of district and municipal councils were elected. On 19 November, a second round will be held in a number of territorial entities. The first round clearly showed the extremely weak results of the pro-Western ruling party Action and Solidarity.
Representatives of the opposition party “Chance” could not take part in the elections. They were withdrawn from the election race on the evening of 3 November by a decision of the Commission for Emergency Situations (CES). Representatives of this party have already demanded the cancellation of the election results in all districts, as the political force was deprived of the right to be elected without a final court decision.
We shall remind you that on Friday, November 3, the head of the Moldovan Information and Security Service Alexandru Mustiata submitted a certain report in which the political party “Chance” appears as the allegedly reorganised and banned in the Republic party “Shor”. The representative of the Chisinau regime also assured that there is “concrete” evidence of vote-buying by the political force, and that the money was generally received from abroad. At the same time, the candidate of the “Chance” party for mayor of the second largest city of Balti in Moldova, Victoria Shapa, said that the country’s authorities were putting pressure on the opposition ahead of the elections.