Six political parties are likely to win seats in the new Moldovan Parliament, says the Association of Sociologists and Demographers of Moldova, which presented the findings of its latest opinion poll at a news conference in Infotag on Monday.

MP Grigore Petrenco [Deputy Chairperson of the Unified European Left group in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe] maintains that the bodyguard agency Argus-S, owned by First Deputy Chairman of the Democratic Party Vlad Plahotniuc, is training fighters to be used in provocations after the elections – all by the order of Plahotniuc.

The Centrist Union of Moldova (CUM) hopes to get into parliament on the November 30 elections, gaining at least 6% of votes.

Liberal Party municipal councilor Oleg Cernei regards as provocation the situation, when Chisinau citizens received exaggerated payment bills for water.

The two main forces of power – the Liberal Democratic Party and the Democratic Party – are leading by the number of violations in the election race 17 days before its end, the chairman of the non-governmental organization “Civil Control – Elections 2014”, political scientist Dr. Nicolae Tveatcov of the Moldovan Academy of Sciences stated at a news conference at Infotag today.

MP Grigore Petrenco – a de-jure member of the parliamentary Communist faction, who is running for new Parliament on Renato Usatii’ ticket – maintains that the ruling coalition parties realize their inevitable election failure, so they are preparing several scenarios for non-recognition of the November 30 election results.

Communist MP Alexander Petcov demands an urgent meeting of the Parliament for cancelling the Law №303 “On public services of water consumption and sewage”, adopted in late 2013 by the ruling Coalition for Pro-European Governance (CEG) deputies. At the Tuesday’s press conference at Infotag, he said that the adoption of the given document was lobbied by a group of high officials from the Democratic Party and the Liberal Democratic Party.

Oleg Cernei, a deputy of the Chisinau Municipal Council [city legislature], who is running for Parliament as an independent candidate, maintains that the Chisinau Primaria [city government] systematically practices the illicit repayment of considerable sums to prosecutors, judges and police bosses to help them obtain “social housing”, i.e. dwellings intended theoretically for low-income families.

The World Business Week will be conducted on November 17 to 23 in Moldova. It is organized by the Gew Moldova Association with the aim to contribute to development of business for the good of national economy.

The international Austrian company Vienna Insurance Group (VIG), which in early 2014 has purchased 94% of shares in the Donaris Group insurance company, intends to bring to Moldova the European standards in the sphere of insurance.

Lawyers Anatol Stepuleac and Iulian Rusanovschi said at the Wednesday’s press conference at Infotag that the “judicial system reform is skidding while the Prosecution remains under the control of certain political parties”.

The Ravnopraviye [Equal Rights] Socio-Political Movement is running for parliament under the slogan “For Moldova within Russia”, Movement leader Valery Klimenko stated at a news conference at Infotag on Wednesday.

Representatives of the Association Against Corruption stated that the drug business in Moldova is protected by the law enforcement. They cited the case of a man, who was declared wanted after he participated in a scheme of growing drug plants under the MoI officers cover.

The Party of Regions Chairman, Bashkan [Governor] of Gagauzia Mihail Formuzal has suspended his participation in the parliamentary campaign only for a short time so as to return to his duties of the head of the southern Moldovan autonomous region of Gagauzia and of a member of the Moldovan Government, Oleg Topolnitchi, Head of the Balti city subdivision of the Social Democratic Party and Co-Chairman of the voting bloc “Moldova’s Choice for the Customs Union” stated at a news conference at Infotag today.

Former Prime Minister of Moldova Vasile Tarlev has been elected Chairman of the Administrative Board of the International Congress of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (ICIE).