The most consistent and energetic supporter of the
\nsovereignty, territorial integrity and European aspirations of the neighbouring
\ncountry, Romania received with caution the results of Sunday’s legislative
\nelections in the Republic of Moldova. The Romanian Foreign Ministry says the
\nballot unfolded in keeping with the legal provisions and democratic standards. According
\nto the Romanian Foreign Ministry it is very important now for Moldova to go
\nthrough the post-election stages responsibly, observing democratic principles,
\nwhich are instrumental in ensuring stability and keeping the country’s European
\nperspective open. <\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Solely the European option may bring sustainable responses to
\nthe Moldovan citizens’ legitimate prosperity expectations, the Romanian
\ndiplomacy underlines. In exchange, the
\nright-of-centre opposition in Bucharest makes a much more severe assessment of
\nthe situation. The National Liberal MP Matei Dobrovie says the elections
\nhaven’t been free, neither fair, nor democratic. He condemns the fact that
\nMoldovan voters living abroad haven’t been allowed to vote only by presenting
\nthe Moldovan identity card, which happened in the previous elections, and he levels
\nthe accusation that tens of thousands of people in the pro-Russian break-away
\nregion of Transdniester, which got out from under Chishinau’s control in 1992, have
\nreportedly been bribed to come to the polling stations on the right side of the
\nDniester, in an organised move. <\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
The pro-European opposition in Chisinau also
\ndeems the elections as the most undemocratic in the history of the small
\nrepublic. Beyond disputes, figures are telling. Just like opinion polls to
\ngauge voting intentions clearly indicated, the winners are the pro-Russian Socialists
\nof President Igor Dodon. They have won 35 of the 101 MP seats. The senior party
\nin the self-declared pro-western government, the Democratic Party, of
\ncentre-left orientation, led by the controversial oligarch Vladimir Plahotniuc,
\nhas got 30 seats and the ACUM bloc, an electoral cartel of the pro-European
\nright wing got some 26 seats. Seven seats go to the populist party led by the
\npro-Russian mayor of the town of Orhei, in the centre, Ilan \u015eor, who was
\nsentenced to 7 years and 6 months in a money scandal lawsuit, after 1 billion
\ndollars disappeared from the Moldovan banking system. <\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Three independent
\ncandidates will also become MPs. The former single party in the Soviet era, the
\ncommunist party, will no longer be represented in parliament for the first
\ntime, just like the parties which have explicitly assumed the ideal of
\nreunification with Romania after independence was declared, namely the Christian
\nDemocrats and then the Liberals. President Dodon has warned that he will call for
\nholding early elections if no clear winner emerges from the ballot, and the
\nparties fail to make up a government coalition. Unanimously considered a key
\nfigure and even the iron fist of the political class in Chisinau, Plahotniuc has
\nexpressed readiness to negotiate with anyone and to make abstraction from
\nideological differences. Pundits tend to believe he will have again the ability
\nto form a majority, rallying around his Democratic Party, if not parties, at
\nleast MPs always willing to abandon the sign under which they have been
\nelected. <\/p>\n
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