Wide-scale protest staged in Moldovan capital

Chisinau, 6 December /MOLDPRES/ - Thousands of citizens and supporters of the parliamentary opposition parties protested on the Great National Assembly Square (PMAN) today. The protesters adopted a resolution, thereby demanding organization of snap parliamentary elections and government’s resignation.

The demonstrators came to PMAN bearing placards with slogans asking for the cabinet’s resignation and parliament’s dissolution. Also, people posted slogans against corruption.   

President-elect Maia Sandu, at whose urge the protest was staged, leaders of more political formations, mayors and civic activists came up with speeches on the stage set on the Square.  

„A majority consisting of the Party of Socialists (PSRM) + the Shor Party was scraped up in parliament; the majority is made up of MPs involved in the one-billion-dollar theft, who adopted laws with the infringement of the Constitution and all norms. These laws represent a risk to the state’s security. They are meant to reduce the president’s power, so that we are not able to fight against corruption. The shortest way towards the snap elections is the Chicu Government’s resignation,’’ Maia Sandu said.        

The president-elect had a speech in the Russian language too.  

The deputy leader of the Dignity and Truth Platform, Alexandru Slusari, said that there was no time to wait another several years till the new parliamentary elections. ‘’Snap elections are needed. On 10 December, when Maia Sandu’s mandate will be validated by the Constitutional Court, the Chicu Government must resign,’’ Slusari noted.      

In the end of the meeting, the participants voted a resolution, in which they demanded ‘’the immediate resignation of the government and parliament’s dissolution.’’  

„The citizens’ assembly imperatively demands the fulfillment of the following claims: the urgent dismissal of the Chicu Cabinet, starting of snap parliamentary elections and cancellation of the package of laws, voted abusively, with the infringement of any norms and procedures of validation by the newly created parliamentary majority PSRM-Shor,’’ the document reads.

Hundreds of policemen, who made a cordon around the government building, ensured the public order at the protest. According to the police, about 5,000 people were at the protest.