Moldova's communists boycotted presidential election on 6 December
The Communist Party faction today refused to take part in electing a new Moldovan president.
Addressing the forum, MCP faction chairperson Maria Postoico stated that nothing has actually changed since the first electoral attempt of last November 10. She accused the parliamentary majority of their “attack against the settled democratic principles and traditions, pressure on the mass media, and persecution of people for their political convictions”.
“Today, i.e. nearly a month since the previous electoral attempt, we are again being offered the same candidate on same conditions. Neither the Alliance for European Integration, nor the Democratic Party, nor the presidential candidate personally have heard or perceived the arguments we put forth”, said Maria Postoico.
She stressed that not the Communist Party but exactly the Democratic Party and personally its chairman have brought the political situation in the republic to a highest boiling point.
“The person pretending to play the role of a Constitution guarantor, a defender of democracy, freedom and independence of the Republic of Moldova has failed to be brave and firm enough to support in parliament even a single initiative proposed by the opposition”, stated the opposition faction head.
Postoico explained, “It would be simply treacherous before our electorate, our country and ourselves to vote for such a candidature proposed by the ruling alliance. We do what the Moldovan people asked us to do, what a half of voters in the country have cast their ballots for. We do not trade in our Motherland, and shall not let anybody to!”
That heard, the entire Communist faction raised and left the room. And though a number of MCP parliamentarians, who attended a plenum of the MCP Central Committee on Monday early morning, spoke for taking part in the elections, even these deputies quitted the session room together with the rest of their party comrades only a couple of hours later.
Throughout the Monday’s special meeting of parliament, the representatives of all AEI factions repeatedly called upon their MCP colleagues to promote the overcoming of the political crisis, but the Communists only swallowed the calls silently and grinningly, showing no reaction, and waiting for a sign to raise and leave.
Marian Lupu thus received 53 votes of the governing Alliance for European Integration that had nominated him as the presidential candidate. By law, president of Moldova is elected in parliament by minimum three-fifths of the legislative forum, i.e. by 61 deputies. So, the December 7 voting was unsuccessful.
Now Moldova’s Acting President, Parliament Chairman Mihai Ghimpu is supposed to dissolve the Parliament and announce the date of one more early parliamentary election. However, the Parliament may be dissolved only in a year after the last forum disbandment, i.e. not before June 16, 2010. With an account of the election campaign duration, which may not be shorter than 45 days, the elections will take place apparently not earlier than next autumn.
It is noteworthy that the electoral legislation, in its newly amended shape, does not stipulate the deadline for parliament dissolution or a deadline when the early election date must be declared.
Already after the MCP faction’s departure, Speaker Mihai Ghimpu assured his coalition comrades remaining in the half-empty room that “president shall all the same be elected soon – even despite the Communist boycott”. He emphasized, “The Communists shall not achieve their goal. There shall be no early election”, though did not elaborate how this forum can overcome the continuing political stalemate.
Last week, acting president Ghimpu signed a Presidential Decree on setting up a Commission for Constitutional Reform. He proposed to work out a package of constitutional amendments to improve the order of electing president. Ghimpu believes it would be expedient to amend the legislation through a nation-wide referendum so as to overcome the political crisis lasting nearly a year, and to thus prevent one more early parliamentary election.
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