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The Moldavian authorities used opposition's statements to committee pogrom and this is a sign for violation of democracy and returning to authoritarian regime in the country, Moldavian Democratic Party Leader Oazu Nantoi said.
"The authorities used this spontaneous reaction to organize vandalism actions and this fact testifies that we are taking a step toward degradation of democracy," Nantoi told Trend in a telephone conversation from Kishinev.
The Moldavian opposition organized protest actions against the governing communist party which gained 50 percent of votes in the parliamentary elections on April 6. Opposition states about falsification, while international monitors did not reveal any serious violations and regarded the elections as legal. On April 7, protests turned into mass disorders in Kishinev. The parliamentary building and presidential residence were attacked and over 270 people were injured.
Falsification was made long before the official elections, Nantoi said. Moldova has undergone consecutive removing norms of legal statehood and political democracy at least within last three years. If the OSCE monitors did not reveal any violations in the elections, it will be worse for them, Moldavian president Ex-Advisor Nantoi said.
The governing communist party also accepts the latest events as oppressing democracy, but puts its guilt on the opposition.
"The 8th April is the indelible shame for our politicians and our democracy," Moldavian President Dmitriy Voronin said in his interview with RIA Novosti.
For the first time, all Moldavian people (practically lively) witnessed the biggest humiliation of own independence and democracy, when state symbols were torn off from flagpoles of the parliament and presidential administration and instead raised the Romanian flag, Voronin said. For the first time, Moldavian people witnessed that the opposition betrayed its nation and country by provoking open civil war.
"All people witnessed that there is not any anti-communist and ant-Voronin opposition in Moldova," Voronin said. "There is an exceptional anti-governmental opposition in Moldova."
Many of protesters came with the Romanian flags to the demonstration and demanded from Moldova to join Romania. Moreover, participants of pogroms raised the Romanian flag at the entrance of the presidential residence.
The day before, the Moldavian authorities blamed for Romania for interference into the country's interior affairs and applied a visa regime to this country after mass disorders in Kishinev. Moreover, the Romanian Ambassador to Moldova was announced as persona non grata.
However, Nantoi believes the government uses Romanian as a pretext to distract attention from this case.
"Every authoritarian regime needs an interior and foreign enemy," Kishinev Institute Public Policy Program Director Nantoi said. "The Voronin regime uses Romania to justify its anti-democratic actions inside the country."
President Voronin applied to the western bodies to stabilize the situation in the country.
However, the West will not interfere into Moldova's interior affairs, as well as it will not demand to annul the elections and hold them under international control, Nantoi said. Europe will confine itself peacefully: "Guys, let live friendly!", as the West indifferently observed violations of democratic freedoms in Moldova, the Democratic Party leader said.
The Republic of Moldova is the only former USSR country where the communist party could come to power since 2001 in the country.
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