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| The Republic of Moldova in Europe 11/02/2011 |
| (2011-02-11) |
| Last updated: 2011-02-17 16:18 EET |
Independent as of August 1991, when the USSR was dismantled, the Republic of Moldova, which has a majority Romanian-speaking population, over the last years has voiced its desire to join the EU. What Brussels wants, for now, is that the political elite in Chisinau break the 2-year deadlock that has turned the republic’s president into a figure with no full attributes.
On Thursday, the Prime Minister of the Republic of Moldova, Vlad Filat, paid his first visit abroad after being reappointed last month. He traveled to Brussels, where he reiterated that his government’s top priority remained EU accession, following an association agreement and one regarding the liberalization of the visa regime. Experts in Chisinau and Brussels are already working on these documents.
The president of the European Commission, Jose Manuel Barroso, has encouraged Moldovan authorities to carry on with reforms that began last year, when a West-leaning coalition replaced the lengthy pro-Russian Communist regime that span between 2001 and 2009. Both Barroso and the president of the European Parliament, Jerzy Buzek, told Filat they hoped that political leaders in Chisinau reached a compromise that could allow for the election of the new president.
The stability and political balance would greatly improve if a president were elected, to replace an interim one who is also the President of Parliament, Buzek insisted. Most analysts in Chisinau fear that the calls of European leaders will have no echo, due to endless idiosyncrasies between the pro-West regime and the Communist opposition.
The Constitution of the Republic of Moldova provides that a president’s election requires the votes of at least 61 of the total of 101 deputies. Three rounds of legislative elections, organized in less than 2 years, have not managed to give a parliamentary majority able to impose their candidate. Dramatically divided, in turn, between pro-Western and pro-Russian politicians, at the last elections, voters gave 59 deputy seats to the 3 coalition parties – the Liberal Democratic Party, the Democratic Party and the Liberal Party. The communists received 42 seats.
The coalition lacks just 2 votes, but chances to obtain them are virtually nil. The fact that the regime’s proposed president is a high-ranking former Communist (that is the current Democratic Party leader and Parliament president Marian Lupu) has also failed to impress his former party fellows. For the republic’s stoutest Communist and former president, Vladimir Voronin, Lupu is a traitor he could never vote for. And most Communist deputies share this point of view. Analysts in Chisinau say that the alliance could pay the highest price for the two missing votes –that is two ministerial seats which Prime Minister Filat should make vacant and put up for Communists willing to change camp.
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