Moldovan Liberals withdraw support to defence minister

12:53 | 13.12.2016 Category: Political

Chisinau, 13 December /MOLDPRES/- The Liberal Party’s Political Bureau decided to withdraw the political support to Defence Minister Anatol Salaru on 12 December.

According to the party’s press service, the participants in the meeting discussed “the non-statutory behavior of Mr. Salaru in relation to the Liberal Party in the last three months”.

“More MPs and heads of the territorial organizations told about trials and pressures of Salaru to break up the PL faction in parliament and the party. Money and various favors were proposed to some people,” a communiqué by the faction reads.

Salaru was also accused that in this period he, in partnership with several news portals from Moldova and Romania, allegedly would conduct development of more sponsored articles, in which the public people from PL had been denigrated. “We are committed to confirm that Salaru, over the last two months, had a common strategy with Igor Dodon, according to which the latter was informed about the agenda and actions of PL, a strategy aimed at causing artificial scandals. The decision of the PL’s political bureau was not easy, is one in line with the party’s statute and action to prevent a new “April 2013”, the press release also reads.

For his part, Salaru said that the reason for withdrawing the political support was the fact that he allegedly asked for a relevant analysis of results of elections and the reason for which PL got less than 2 per cent.

“I requested to convene a congress in order to tackle the situation in the party. It was normal that Mihai Ghimpu, according to such a result, should submit presidential mandate and accept convening the congress and electing a new leadership. The current situation in the party is disastrous. PL transformed into an Ltd managed by the whims of Mr. President. The party needs reconstruction, PL needs new leaders, if not, we run the risk of reaching the trash of history,” Salaru said.

At the same time, he remarked that Ghimpu along with Igor Dodon and Vladimir Voronin would be the third president wanting his dismissal from the Defence Ministry.

(Reporter A. Plitoc, editor M. Jantovan)

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