Communists won't push for early elections if ruling Alliance fulfills two conditions

Former President and current Party of Communists head Vladimir Voronin seems to have changed his mind about early elections. Earlier in the week, Mr. Voronin told Russian radio station Ekho Moskvi that he plans on consolidating the Party of Communists (PC) and on pushing for early elections.

During a press conference today, however, Mr. Voronin noted that he would like to give the ruling Alliance for European Integration "an exclusive chance to spare the country from the danger of early elections."

The Communist head proposed that the coalition implement two policies which would then convince his party to vote for a President. First, Mr. Voronin asked that the Alliance raise the minimum wage every two years, increase welfare bonuses for mothers who just gave birth and for childcare, keep the yearly adjusted level of pensions (which would mean they would have to be often increased), keep the retirement age, keep the same number of schools, kindergartens, medical institutions, and so on.

Second, the former President asked that the Alliance keep Moldova's military neutrality and not join any military blocs, that it continue negotiations with the breakaway Transnistrian republic, and that it give the separatist entity a special status of an autonomous republic within Moldova.

Alliance leaders have not yet reacted to Mr. Voronin's conditions.

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