Fifty members of the Balti city subdivision of the Social Democratic Party of Moldova (PSDM) have announced they are leaving for the Democratic Party.
Subdivision’s former chairman Alexandru Tureac told on Wednesday that in the nearest future about 80% of the subdivision’s 180 members will follow their example. He explained the main reasons of such exodus: for the forthcoming early parliamentary elections, the PSDM leadership has not until now presented its vision of the situation, has not projected any actions during the election campaign, and, essentially, refused to start efforts to unify social democratic forces in this republic.
‘We have taken this decision after ex-speaker of the Moldovan Parliament Marian Lupu had joined the Democratic Party. We regard him as a politician able to bring stability to the republic’, Tureac said.
He further held the PSDM leadership is aware of the decision, but the group has not yet held a talk with party leader Dumitru Braghis.
‘We have already met with Marian Lupu. We are convinced he is not a project of somebody’s, as some in Chisinau are saying. So far, we have not been promised anything in the Democratic Party, and we will not be present on the SDPM electoral ticket’, Tureac said.
He presumes other PSDM regional organizations may well join the Democratic Party, too, ‘for the people see the Democratic Party have good chances to become a strong parliamentary force at the 29 July elections’.
Tureac remarked Marian Lupu is very popular in the country’s second largest city of Balti, and ‘with his departure, the ruling Communist Party will lose many voters’.
