Moldova communists stage anti-EU rallies
Source: EU Observer
Moldova’s opposition Communist Party leader and former president, Vladimir Voronin, has said the country should join Russia's Customs Union instead of sealing an EU pact.
He also called on the country’s pro-EU coalition to step down due to corruption.
Voronin spoke amid an outbreak of anti-EU protests over the weekend. Some 15,000 people reportedly demonstrated against the EU pact in the Moldovan capital on Saturday. Voronin said they intend to also picket EU member states' embassies and a European Commission office.
The protests comes about two weeks after a pro-EU rally is said to have gathered 50,000 people or more. It also comes a few weeks after Russia strong-armed Armenia into ditching its EU pact.
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