Moldovan Democratic Party's congress postponed for 7 September 2019

Chisinau, 20 July /MOLDPRES/ - The extraordinary congress of the Democratic Party of Moldova (PDM) has been postponed for 7 September 2019. The PDM national political council took a decision to this effect today.  

Following conferences held by the PDM territorial organizations, we have reached a conclusion that “the Democratic Party needs a deeper reorganization, modernization, which must be prepared thoroughly and a longer period of time is necessary for this.”  

At the same time, the participants in the PDM national political council discussed the need to attract personalities, specialists from various sectors, who will share the Democrats’ values and vision of Moldova’s development, so that the citizens are in the focus of the cares of the politicians from the Democratic Party.  “PDM needs a deep party reform, a process of cleaning, as well as of strengthening both in the territory and at the central level,” the acting leader of the Democrats, Pavel Filip, said.   

The Council members ruled to postpone the summoning of the congress for 7 September and empowered the Standing Bureau to set up a working group due to prepare a draft on the modernization of the Democratic Party. Initially, the congress was convened for 27 July.

Another mandate received by the Standing Bureau deals with starting PDM’s preparations for the local elections, including the organization of the electoral staff. In this respect, the Council members referred also to strengthening the Democrats’ local teams and identifying potential candidates of PDM for eligible offices.  

The Democratic Party on 14 June informed that it was withdrawing from governance, held since 2016. The decision came following the creation of a ruling coalition between the Moldovan Party of Socialists and the ACUM Bloc, made up of the Dignity and Truth Platform Party and the Action and Solidarity Party.