A bloody tyree Vice President of the Outgoing Democratic Party and a former Justice Minister with moldova now a by word for corruption you see ashamed of peace partys record in government. Which i will tell you welcome to conflict zone. And place to be here to discussions your party lost the battle to hold on to power but you deserve to lose the way didnt you because democracy was increasingly undermined under your watch and there was massive corruption which you did very little about so you deserved to go didnt you really it depends how to look at that and i would disagree with something related to decryption sput yes indeed i can say that we have lots of critics related to democracy tens. Well over the Democratic Partys been and while undertaking the mandate and governance in 2016 at youth a lot in social and economical performances being for example the salaries increased in the public area by 70 percent there are a salary still in the pensions of the last year you were sure in the world that the Democratic Party was implementing european standards at home thats what you said in september yes here europe was telling a completely different story about you the European Parliament condemned what it called an increasing backsliding on core values related to democratic standards so much for your european standards and also added that moldova was trapped by oligarchic interests with economic and political power in the hands of a small group of people exerting their influence on parliament the government Political Parties state of ministration police and judiciary in other words your assurances about european standards were worthless well no i would disagree with that because similar opinion this was a political statement and we can have different opinions here we respect this whole story because it has been done by a Political Group it was based on findings that they discovered when they came here many of the talks that theyve been having a list again did you see did he show any on evaluation or a some some reports regarding to die because they havent seen and everything that could be measured has been measured with a significant progresses bads that is that they want the view of the e. U. The council of europe Freedom House the un the Us State DepartmentAmnesty International oh i see but those were the foundation there was remarkable unanimity about the state of democracy and corruption in this country from them wasnt but let me please explain otherwise if you want to hear me because while i would divide those changes. I would divide the corruption and i would divide the democracy why because well talking about corruption since 2016 they were the most progress is that ever have been done in republic of lower in fighting corruption was the 1st cases where ministers the Prime Ministers and other very high officials have been prosecuted the u. S. Court itself active justice now if selective just one were talking about the ministers that were in our government i wouldnt say that it was selective because selective means then when youre prosecuting all everyone except your once but it wasnt the case and you also said you underminded the processes the judicial processes thats also a little view of the United States well it was some new shoes well but this is not related more than some issues is it still with i know i again there are difficulties in judicial system of course there are but while talking to corruption this was the most fighting period in republic of moldova thats why according to the Public Perception corruption was the 1st one ranked problem in 2016 and it became the 5th one in 2019 due to the efforts that have been put fighting that in march washingtons human rights report effectively highlighted what all the other International Organizations have been saying they highlighted torture in your prisons arrest and detention by the authorities restrictions on freedom of the media and serious attacks on people who stood in the way of your party especially lawyers as one un special rapporteur reported lawyers faced politically motivated criminal charges or were threatened each time they defended people with opinions dissenting from the author or it is you were just dismissed and you signed off on this you were quite happy that should happen that these lawyers should be thrown. Well in. Is very fashionable to start victimizing yourself understudying politics while you have some criminal cases on your side. Because for example to do with the charges that well you have this exactly this exactly cases youre referring to 2 cases one of them is related to one attorney a woman that has been committed a crime murder in 191999 the other one is another lawyer they were just referring to 2 cases in situ cases they refer referring to a pattern the banana i know exactly the cases that theyre reference to and the other case is this case of a lawyer reading koch who has committed bribes and traffic of influence before starting being the lawyer of one of the people that pretending to be politician so this is were talking about 2 cases all of them committed crimes before starting coming into the public area we have a lot of Different Cases to go through mr secretary why was the International Community so keen on seeing you go on june the 14th the United States basically said it was pleased to see you go the state Department Spokesman said the u. S. Welcomes the Democratic Partys announcement that its withdrawing from government in favor of Prime MinisterPrime Minister my son will and the coalition formed by the democratically elected parliament the fact is washington couldnt wait to get rid of you could and more importantly it wasnt going to lift a finger to save you was it well no one should place any fingers to save anyone politicians or the us it was a Coalition Created that were accepted at the final stage and we transferred the powers of the governments it is good the people to have the comparison of how the car country can be governed by ones and by the others its good for us if you were here i willingly you gave up the rules of National Press or you even got the Constitutional Court to strip the president of his powers so that new elections could be called for september if were talking about that is going to have to see how the. Uncivil since the 7th of june and youll see that we gave the power in a peaceful manner and we give it willingly and we may be the announcements for they said before transferring the power after trying to get the Constitutional Court to step in and call elections thats what you tried to do which isnt tied to step in any Constitutional Court or stuff like that because on monday already which was the 3rd day of that announcement of the Constitutional Court well ready to the decision to transfer the power and on tuesday which was the 4th day or we already announced that we are willing to stay to discuss how to transfer the power peacefully who trustingly rulings from your Constitutional Court these days after you stuffed it with your own people who trusts the Constitutional Court here most of the people trust because initial court doesnt trust only the ones who doesnt dont like the decisions of that report last year the bottles when foundation said that the current Justice System including the general Prosecutors Office the Supreme Court the Supreme Judicial Council and the National Corruption center were largely subordinated to the oligarch vladimir plot look who just happens to be chairman of your Democratic Party although you tell me hes just a down hes Just Announced that hes lee he Just Announced the hurt but thats not a great record you want Justice Minister us allow that kind of state carry a play i think i didnt tell you i took the management of the minister of justice in 2015 and the end of the year and at that time already they were the statements that the state is captured by the way 2nd at that time already all the support of European Union in that area has been refused or suspended i had the conditionality to approve lots of the reforms in a very short time and id managed to do that in 2 years or even less and it was accepted and recognise. Now we we have a legislation in the judiciary which is like a piece of the art we have a class of a lot of things to implement to work on training the new judges which have been renewed we have almost 5045 percent of the judge the new ones which came into the system but still we need to train them we need to create uniform practices in that respect and it cannot be done through the night it will take time down was to stop those who could do nation to the chairman of your party it was without burning has been foundation i would deserve a National Attention i would disagree to you to make the assessments and the conclusions based on only on the statements of the parties that were on their position at the time its not because of their own findings and its because today i International Organizations today say the same thing today at 2 weeks time since the government has been transferred to the other parties i can say the judiciary is subordinated to the new government why very simple because it was sufficient a new Prime Minister to make some statements and of course have been changing their decisions immediately through the night if this is subordination then you have to accept that their subordinates to the new government as well they want to go we have heard that it depends how objective signs that the leaders are demanding a bt and of the judiciary is the author it is the lovely syria has been in forced by your polity using corrupt practices business clan ties and intimidation this was reported because those militias are not say on the phone well they got it wrong lets lets then break the law to religious and discuss that i misunderstood lets lets discuss that i just stated that the new government and they took the control of the judicial rein said its not so if they just made a statement but if they make the statement that you have to revise your decision and to decide like that and the court. Immediately is doing that what does means if not subordination in your understanding. In more than 0 although you also watch and you watch mr chip with the politicize ation of the judiciary was an instrument which was often used against mr plow looks rivals that was the conclusion of the Bertelsmann Foundation i went from 271822800 thanks to your efforts miss World Economic forum ranked moldova 100 and 32nd the other 137 countries as regards the independence of the judiciary are you proud of that record the new course here my i dont know im not but i what they can say is standard what they can tell you is that when we took the tradition i took the judiciary the trust of the people in the jury sure was 7 percent and when i left my position of the ministry of justice was 25 percent yes this is not sufficient but in 2 years time to increase is 3 times its something but they return the seattle little nancy hearty chairman knows who they gave their oil to the stronger thats what they said and thats wrong they misunderstood they just got it wrong they made up the story is that right is this what youre saying no im not saying that im just saying that i dont get it some are saying that we had a very poor situation which is not very fantastic today but it has registered a very good improvements in that respect you you deny any wrongdoing by the merits and im not im not saying that its not correct just to state the wrongdoings but it is correct to see how the developments and evolution of all of that what about mr plan look you are probably ganji and can do so than 2016 that he was made the most hated man in the country because people need to find somebody to blame thats it hes blameless no way no one is angel in my liver. Iran the new governments even their World Governments even democratic parties the members were not dangerous as no one is angel one likely to take we are committing mistake was he a crook is he a crook of course its not a crook. Of course its not a crook its a person that has ensured a good and efficient governance from the point of view of the social infrastructure problems yes maybe the party didnt focus too much on democracy and maybe the party didnt focus too much on implementing some reforms in like judiciary for example but what these done improving the life of the people is done a lot and even more than many other governments putting together for the last previous 20 years when the new government came in your party chief was the plan if lead the country along with a Business Partner iran saw he was looking perhaps for friends outside but. He didnt find any duty to find any friends again i would disagree with his statement but because he left the country only after transferring peacefully they govern and studio to their position or to doubt it is excellent i dont know lets ask him i am not together said that neither the interior ministry nor the border have a record of him leaving the main is the the new minister of internal affairs made 3 different statements in just one week and all of them conflict in between each other so i would i wouldnt pay too much price to the statements that he made i understand that he is a new minister but hes committing too much mistaken and is misleading the Public Opinion in that respect probably isnt coming back you see its over everyones had enough of your part lets ask him lets ask him because he is your understanding hes coming back my understanding is that he is coming back as long or when the security arrangements will be done including kurian although you refused for a week to give up your offices didnt use the officials you appointed refused to obey the new Prime Ministers we on the 3rd day we already announced for the accounting since 8 of june were ready announced that we are willing to have discussions to transfer the governess so i would disagree for a runner you put your supporters into the square and there could have been massive violence because the chance for should be peaceful and now should be should be peaceful but it might not be and it was peaceful and tried to get into the offices you wouldnt let me i mean we know they didnt try even to get into the office some of them did now none of them he said none of them didnt try to get into the offices they just made some declarations yes different dates could probably tip a one week staying here in those very hard times to turn the stand the situation no one tried and we made all the announcements and invitations to them to Start Talking and this was. Its almost over your time is over what means the governess is over it was over on 8 of june yes its over the new government has promised theyll be no revenge im sure you really are already there they are already sure you are relieved to hear that millennial because this is helping them with their inquiries im sorry previous corruption is because they harassments public pressure and revenge already is there many of the people already are dismissed the professional people which has no links with the parties have been already dismissed from their positions but if you are there already come on this is a year of saying the u. S. Senate was the only served to use the people that i think hearing on different reforms and different projects to manage and funding by our Development Partners their professional center dr nyce like that very thing you did dont theyre going to put a spotlight is everything to me lets put on the spotlight its going to be rather uncomfortable for us and no its not at all uncomfortable because i see many of the critics they have been done theyre already coming to an out opinion because they they criticize not knowing or not going into the details of different projects or and reforms but well see what they will do and its better to judge about them and us in comparison and well see when how the salaries will rise well see how the Infrastructure Projects will go on how the collections of the budget will be done and then we will see who is less corrupted and who is better managing and governing the country the challenge for this government is to dismantle your system of control over the courts and the criminal investigation bodies isnt it which you controlled basically and which were loyal to your Party Chairman from 26 dean. Transparency International Reported your main aim was to concentrate your partys power within the executive criminal investigation bodies and courts it said are used by this party as instruments to intimidate and make