Moldovan PM says goal of those denigrating government is to deviate Moldova from EU integration vector

Chisinau, 20 October /MOLDPRES/ - "A massive well-staged attack against the government has been launched" over the last days. The main goal is to deviate Moldova from its strategic goal of European integration, Prime Minister Valeriu Strelet said at a news conference today. 

"I have attentively listened to statements by comrade Voronin and comrade Dodon and I understand that their goal is to create an atmosphere of chaos, an atmosphere of confusion now, on the eve of winter. Yet, their principal aim is that, by these actions, by the denigration of the image of the government, which in a short period since its swearing in office, has done its utmost to unlock a string of processes regarding the banking sector, stability of social payments, energy sector, to deviate Moldova from its strategic vector of European integration," the prime minister said.  

According to Valeriu Strelet, by these attacks, "they try to implement what they have aimed at long ago." After the "perfectly legal" demand of dismissal of the director of the National Anti-Corruption Centre (CNA) , the prime minister said he would ask for the dismissal of other officials too, including ministers, who "do not carry out reform, but anti-reform, protecting the interests of parties, not of the citizens."

The leader of the Party of Socialists, (PSRM), Igor Dodon, told a today's news conference that he would record a motion of censure against the Strelet cabinet this week. "The motion is filed with 26 signatures and is adopted with 51 votes. We will do our utmost, so that the motion be submitted this week, and be voted in the parliament next week," Dodon said. Also, the leader of the Party of Communists, Vladimir Voronin, said at a news conference that he was likely to back an eventual motion of censure.  

"A plot is laid against the Republic of Moldova," warned Prime Minister Valeriu Strelet. The official added that the way these statements were made and their synchronization made him believe that the games had been made to the greatest extent and the final act was to take place in the parliament - dismissal of the pro-European government. 

(Reporter V. Bercu, editor A. Raileanu)