According to various reports, 2,500-20,000 people took to the streets of Moldova’s capital Chisinau to protest the results of Sunday’s parliamentary elections.
At least 20 people have been injured, and one protester is feared dead.
The reports indicate the protesters have stormed the parliament building and set furniture inside on fire.
They have also thrown stones, bottles, and eggs at the building of the presidential administration.
The protesters – mainly students – apparently did not plan violence initially, and police were not interfering after blocking the traffic on Chisinau’s central road, but then they had to use tear gas.
The participants of the rally, waving Romanian and European Union flags, demanded that Moldovan President Vladimir Voronin come out to them and announce his resignation.
Among the slogans used by the protesters were: “Down with Communism!," “We want freedom,” and “We are against falsification!”
The Head of the presidential administration, Mark Tkachuk, gave RT his comments concerning the situation:
“Street riots have been initiated by a group formed by the leaders of the opposition parties which have lost the election – that is, which either failed to make it into parliament, or got a very limited number of deputies,” he said.
“Masses of shaven-headed youths have stormed into the Parliament. Most of the slogans they are chanting are anti-Moldovan, and are mostly concerned with the country's unification with Romania. There are Romanian flags everywhere. All this can be classified as an attempt to launch a street riot coup d’etat,” he added.
The Leader of the opposition Liberal Democratic Party, Vlad Filat, has called on the protestors to stop acting aggressively.
“We have signed a document with the leaders of the Liberal Party Our Moldova alliance which annuls the results of the election on April 5. We are going to seek the cancellation of election results and organization of a truly democratic election. I urge you to stop the protest,” Filat said.
According to preliminary reports (almost 99% of ballots counted), the Moldovan Communist Party won 49.96% of votes, while the Liberal Party got 12.78%, the Liberal Democratic Party – 12.26%, and the Our Moldova alliance – 9.81%.
The opposition was dissatisfied with the vote results and said it planned a protest rally on Tuesday.
Russia’s Foreign Ministry reacted to the April 5 parliamentary election calling it, “another step towards the strengthening of democratic norms and traditions in the country.”
Source:RT
I could clearly remember myself a young schoolgirl during the putsch
ОтветитьУдалитьin August 1991.My parents didn't let me go outside, because they were afraid that I would go to the streets to defend the ideas of perestroika.Some years after I realized that ideal political system didn't exist.Both democrates or communists could lie to you or use propoganda.Every country has it's own national interest and this factor plays the major role when it comes the time for it's elite to make decisions. And the most bitter fact- war is a very profitable business...
Yes, you are right.It seems that Abhazia and South Ossetia are'nt the "democratic states" and doesn't have western patrons instead of Ukraine and Georgia.The same with Rysins... The democracy for the chosen ones, but in this case it's not a democracy..
I meant unlike Georgia and Ukraine.
ОтветитьУдалитьWhen Russia defended it's neibhours, like in August of 2008,granted loans to some of ex-soviet republics, West start to speak immediately that we want to restore the former empire, dear me! I have never read such a whopper like in some western newspapres the last time. Soviet propaganda fades in comprasion with it.
ОтветитьУдалитьI watched the news from Moldova yesterday, young people robed the House of Parliament they stole PС's, office equipment, furniture and after sell some of these things in square right in front of it. It was really an offensive sight.