Moldovan PPEM leader: "Agreement with PPEM for EU, not to promote thieves from Chisinau municipality"

Chisinau, 5 September /MOLDPRES/ - The Cooperation agreement signed by the parliamentary majority and the European People's Party of Moldova /PPEM/ have the purpose of European integration and not to promote thieves in Chisinau municipality. The statement was made today by PPEM leader Iurie Leanca, after PL Chairman Mihai Ghimpu announced that he withdrew his signature from the cooperation agreement signed with PPEM.

The PPEM leader stated on a social network that "if Mihai Ghimpu thought that that partnership was a political game to cancel the referendum (on dismissal of Chisinau Mayor Dorin Chirtoaca), then he did right that withdrew his signature when he learnt that it is not so. PPEM will continue with full force to support the country's European integration, with the belief that it is the only way to modernize Moldova," Leanca wrote.

On 29 July, the parliamentary majority and PPEM signed a National Partnership for European Integration, political agreement with the objective of upgrading and integration of Moldova into EU.

Mihai Ghimpu announced today that he withdrew his signature on the agreement with PPEM, arguing that the party headed by Iurie Leanca "has not announced its withdrawal from the tacit alliance with PSRM, PN and PCRM in the Chisinau Municipal Council. It is reprehensible that Mr Leanca went to Brussels, Bucharest and Sofia and spoke about European integration and Chisinau allied with the pro-Russian parties, which are anti-national and anti-European," reads PL's press release .

(Reporter A. Plitoc, editor A. Raileanu)