The Congress of the Peoples of Moldova (CPM) regards it is unacceptable to introduce whatever amendments into the current 1994 Constitution.

Currently free-lance lawyers Mihai Petrache [ex-Chairman of the Centrist Union of Moldova] and Anatol Plugaru [Moldova’s Minister of State Security in 1991-1992] have recommended to Prime Minister Vlad Filat to initiate legal proceedings against Communist Party leader Vladimir Voronin for his public libelous speculations about Filat’s involvement into major cigarette smuggling.

Chairman of “My Moldova” citizens’ association Fedor Ghelici has officially invited ex-President of Moldova, leader of the Moldovan Communist Party MP Vladimir Voronin to take part in a live television debate “to discuss the outcome of the Communists’ 8-year-long rule and the reasons of the current crisis in Moldova”.

The ‘Alga’ Association for the Protection of Stray Animals will appeal to the court against the Chisinau municipality, if it does not urgently solve the problem of placing stray dogs.

MP Vladimir Turcan, Chairman of the “Moldova Unită – Edinaia Moldova” (MUEM) party and former Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Russia, believes that both huge undertakings being conceived by the two hostile political forces in the republic – a referendum on amending the Constitution being initiated by the governing Alliance for European Integration and the Communist Party’s referendum on impeachment of the AEI – will bring nothing constructive to the republic but a split of the society.

Lawyers Anatol Plugaru [Moldova’s Minister of State Security in 1991-1992] and Mihai Petrache [ex-Chairman of the Centrist Union of Moldova] presume that after the downfall of the Communist dictatorship in July 2009, Moldova seems to be entering a new trend – consolidation of the dictatorship of a minority. That’s how the two free-lance lawyers perceive the yesterday’s decision of the governing Alliance for European Integration leaders to organize a national referendum on adopting a new Constitution.

The Roma of Moldova claim that their rights are restricted, that they are subjected to discrimination, and that the program for the support of gypsies, adopted by the previous Communist leadership, does not work.

A group of participants in the 1992 Transnistrian armed conflict have called upon the veterans of all wars living in Moldova to get united into one strong organization.

The Forum of Women’s Organizations, the 50/50 Political Women’s Club, and the Gender Centru organization have stood up with an appeal to the Moldovan authorities and civil society to treat women with a greater attention and care.

The Moldovan Humanist Party (MHP) stands for broadening women’s rights in the society and for promoting more women to high state posts.

Chisinau Municipal Council member and Chairman of the Ravnopraviye [Equal Rights] Socio-Political Movement Valery Klimenko has stood up with an idea to create an “International Scientific Commission for Studying the Consequences of the Totalitarian, Dictatorial and Anti-Democratic Regimes in the Republic of Moldova Territory in the 20th Century”. He is convinced that such an international team, unlike the already working Commission for Assessment and Condemnation of the Totalitarian Communist Regime in Moldova, will necessarily produce objective results.

Veaceslav Stavila, a member of the Commission for Assessment and Condemnation of the Totalitarian Communist Regime in Moldova, maintains the number of victims of the “Soviet occupation of Moldova” is substantially greater than what used to be announced and believed before.

The idea to start electing president in Moldova by 50% + 1 votes of parliamentarians [i.e. by 52-of-101 deputies in parliament] can easily lead to usurping the presidential power and to illegitimacy of the head of state, presume free-lance lawyers Anatol Plugaru [ex-minister of state security in 1991-1992] and Mihai Petrache [former chairman of the Centrist Union of Moldova].

The Institute for Human Rights in Moldova (IDOM) is demanding that the Supreme Magistracy Chamber’s Disciplinary College must objectively consider the so-called ‘case of judge Dorin Popovici’ of the Sectorul Buiucani Court of Chisinau.

Should an early parliamentary election be held in Moldova before the end of 2010, the Christian Democratic Popular Party shall take part in it with a serious electoral program in hands, Genadie Vaculovschi of the CDPP leadership stated at a news conference in Infotag today.