Former PAS councillor leaves Chișinău Municipal Council
Sergiu Crețu, a member of the Chișinău Municipal Council who was expelled from PAS on May 30, has given up his mandate. His resignation request was submitted on June 3. As with his expulsion from the party, there is very little public information about the reasons behind the decision.In May, the Permanent Bureau of the PAS Chișinău municipal organisation explained Crețu’s expulsion only by referring to “behaviour incompatible with the party’s values”. Today, Crețu refused to comment at all.
Grosu points to “incompatible behaviour in the family”
Some light was shed on the case by Igor Grosu. He said the party’s actions against Crețu were linked to “incompatible behaviour in the family”. However, PAS’s attitude towards domestic violence among its own officials is already familiar from the case of Dumitru Vartic.
He was expelled from the party only after his wife died by suicide. According to unofficial versions, he may have killed her himself. It had reportedly long been known that he was a domestic tyrant who terrorised his wife. Yet this did not prevent his party career from continuing.
PAS values remain selective
So what exactly was considered “incompatible with party values” in Crețu’s case? Was it really domestic behaviour? Or was Crețu pushed out because of some other issue that the party prefers not to explain?
Perhaps his real mistake was showing insufficient tolerance towards “gender diversity”. On that point, the yellow party is known to be far stricter. For now, the public has only silence, vague formulas and another resignation inside the ruling party.
PAS speaks constantly about values. But each new scandal raises the same question: which values are actually being defended, and which are merely used when convenient?
