Last Saturday, the Transnistrian Communist Party (TCP) organized in
Dubossary town a meeting of protest “against an unlimited price growth,
exorbitant utility rates, the luxury of the elite and impoverishment of
the population majority, against miserable salaries and pensions,
against the civil servants’ permissiveness”.
The protest
action gathered over 400 people who unfolded posters reading “ Our
salaries and pensions are insufficient for living!”, “Let the
opposition speak!” and the like.
TCP chairman Oleg Horjan
laid blame for the deterioration of living standards on president
Smirnov and the republic’s executive power branch [which Smirnov
himself heads], “who do not undertake due measures to overcome the
crisis… If even after the today’s massive action by Transnistrian
Moldovan Republic citizens the country leadership shows its
indifference and aloofness, then we reserve the right to start raising
signatures for dismissing the president and cabinet of ministers”.
Last
month, the Communist Party organized an analogous meeting in Tiraspol,
demanding to dismiss the president and his cabinet, to dissolve the
supreme soviet and to hold an early parliamentary election on party
tickets, and to ensure a fair access to information for all parties in
Transnistria.
The communists made several attempts to hold a
protest meeting in Dubossary, but the local administration did not
issue permission for that, and Horjan and his several comrades were
even detained by the militia for distributing leaflets containing a
call to come out for a protest meeting.
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