CHIŞINĂU (Imedia)
Moldova is recovering from the crisis, the economy is stabilizing, and there is a process of economic revival, says Nikolai Guerguiev, head of the International Monetary Fund's evaluation mission, who was in Chisinau for two days. Mr. Guerguiev says that Moldova's economic perspectives "are very good," but that there are "rather significant challenges."
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The Moldovan Secret Service agency condemns statements made by the Transnistrian state security minister, according to which Ernest Vardanean, a journalist, was a Moldovan spy, and that Transnistrian students in Moldova are potential victims of the Moldovan secret service. "The secessionists are thusly trying to revive a false thesis of an alleged scenario to solve the Transnistrian conflict by force. /.../ At the same time, there is an attempt to introduce mistrust in ties between partner services, with which the secret service in Chisinau has lately intensified cooperation in order to create more efficient participation in the process to consolidate regional and European security," says a press release from the secret service agency.
Mr. Vardanean was arrested by Transnistrian authorities under accusations of espionage and high treason.
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The General Prosecutor's (GP) office asks citizens to identify the "organizers, leaders, and instigators to mass disorders" on April 7, 2009. The GP publishes a number of pictures of people who were thought to have asked demonstrators to commit violent acts during the April 2009 events.
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The Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) accuses Rezina raion head Valeriu Ciorici and head of the Rezina post office Valeriu Amarfei of illegally taking money that veterans and soldiers' widows were supposed to receive on May 9 from the state and distributing the aid as though they were gifts from Communist head Vladimir Voronin. The LDP asks Mr. Ciorici to resign and Mr. Amarfei to be fired immediately after they hear about the case.
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Justice Minister Alexandru Tanase says he will once again ask the Supreme Judicial Council's (SJC) disciplinary college to sanction Supreme Court of Justice (SCJ) head Ioin Muruianu for attacking the press. Mr. Muruianu initially received a severe verbal warning, but the SCJ, whose head he is, canceled that decision. „This is extremely serious - when a person who reports to a person above is the one analyzing the case filed by the person above. This is an alarm that things in the legal system change very slowly because of the opposition some judges have toward the modernization and change of the judicial system," Mr. Tanase adds.
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Party of Communists (PC) leader Vladimir Voronin tells news agency Omega that he is not afraid of early elections and that he would be interested in the direct election of the head of state. "The ones in the Alliance for European Integration (AEI) would have to lose because they are not taking into consideration the fact that I could run for a new term," Mr. Voronin warns. On the other hand, he adds that the "election of the head of state by Parliament is a democratic model and is very widespread in Europe."
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The Ministry of Finance proposes the delay of a system of financing political parties running during local elections until July 2015 and July 2017 (for those running in national elections). This money was initially supposed to come during the 2011 local elections.
