Moldovan acting president Mihai Ghimpu: no early election
Moldova's Acting President and Parliament Chairman Mihai Ghimpu is convinced the Parliament will manage to elect a new president, so the republic will be spared of a new early parliamentary election.
Ghimpu stated in his interview with the Timpul [Time] newspaper of Chisinau published on Monday, "I am sure we shall succeed in electing president within the law-stipulated time - by November 11. We have necessary leverage for this, so we shall find not just 8 votes [the majority Alliance for European Integration needs to enlist to elect president] but more than this".
In his words, if the Communists really decide to throw Moldova into a new early election campaign, then they should at last realize "they are cutting the branch they are sitting on".
"We shall amend the Electoral Code and shall provide the right to vote to all citizens of Moldova, including to those who are staying abroad. The Communists should analyze the situation thoroughly. They now have 48 mandates in parliament, but after one more election they may well come to have about 10 mandates. The poverty the country is currently in is their fault. And they should say us thank you for our starting to eliminate the poverty and draw the country out of crisis", Ghimpu said.
Asked about a possibility to organize a referendum on returning to a nation-wide election of president, Mihai Ghimpu said that this will require time, which is not available now, "but we have another decision - a constitutional and legal one. But I would not rather elaborate on this now. I can only say there shall be no early election".
He said that the chief task now is to proceed with reforms, and expressed regret that "in 1994, Moldovan citizens were afraid of reforms and voted for the Agrarian Democratic Party, which was but a Communist nomenclature, so "instead of marching forward we turned and went back. What Voronin did [last 8 years] was not politics. It was a lie. We must return to reforms because nothing will come out without them".
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