Tkachuk blamed for communists' refusal to elect Moldovan president
Ex-presidential aide blamed for opposition's refusal to elect Moldovan president
The Communist Party leader and ex-President Vladimir Voronin has been "programmed" by a group of Communist lawmakers, led by [former presidential aide] Mark Tkachuk, to hinder the election of Democratic Party leader Marian Lupu as president, the honorary chairman of the Democratic Party, Dumitru Diacov, told journalists today after the Moldovan parliament failed to elect the president in the second and last attempt.
Diacov said that the Communist MPs have been involved in a fierce struggle for leadership in the party, with a group of lawmakers supporting the election of the president, while another one opposing it.
"I have convinced myself that the Communist Party is being run by Mark Tkachuk rather than by Vladimir Voronin. Tkachiuk has already started compiling lists of betrayers and threatening his party colleagues. Last evening, a number of Communist lawmakers were ready to come to parliamentary rostrum today and try to persuade the! ir colleagues to cast their votes for Marian Lupu. Yet, today they changed their mind," Diacov said.
During negotiations with the Communist Party, the Democratic Party has done his best to convince its members to vote for Lupu, Diacov said, adding that the Communists now bear responsibility for negative consequences of the political instability.
"The Communists would have voted if they indeed wished to steer the country out of the crisis. But they only wished to use the Democratic Party in order to return to power, and we did not allow this to happen. If the Communists say that they do not want to see Mihai Ghimpu as [acting] president, then why hadn't they voted for Marian Lupu in order to have another head of state already tomorrow? I believe that the Communists are interested in Ghimpu continuing to hold the presidential office and making all kinds of statements, this way fuelling Communists' counterstatements. The Communists are interested exactly in this ra! ther than in a calm situation in the country," Diacov said.
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