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| CHISINAU CARRIES ON ANTI-ROMANIAN CAMPAIGN 25/05/09 |
| (2009-05-25) |
| Last updated: 2009-05-26 15:15 EET |
The belief that you are alone against everybody else and that the universe conspires against you is a good sign of paranoia. Outgoing president of the ex-Soviet, predominantly Romanian-speaking Republic of Moldova, the communist Vladimir Voronin, has been pointing an accusing finger at neighboring Romania for two months now, and has just reached a new peak. In an interview published on Sunday by the Russian agency RIA Novosti, he accuses Romanian politicians, as usual, of having plotted the anti-governmental rioting in Chishinau, that followed the April 5th parliamentary election. As expected of a former militiaman, Voronin claims he has personally identified in the mob that attacked the Presidency building, over “300 people of a special sub-unit that had arrived from Romania the day before.”
Moreover, he argues that after the rioting failed, his Romanian counterpart, Traian Basescu, quote “continued to voice his aggressive intentions as to the Republic of Moldova,” which is why the European Union ought to “call the Romanian leader to orders.” This time around, the communist leader went too far. He suggests that Bucharest worked hand in hand with other Western capitals, following a scenario similar to the one used in the so-called “orange revolutions” of the past few years, in Ukraine and Georgia, which replaced the pro-Russian regimes in Kiev and Tbilisi with pro-Western leaders. In other words, the EU should also call to order other members, and possibly, the European Commission itself should eat humble pie. To analysts, Voronin’s unreasonable and far-fetched rhetoric reveals the desperation of Chisinau’s leader. He has used up the two presidential terms that the Constitution entitled him to, and the election of one of his people as president, able to carry on Voronin’s abusive policies and guarantee his immunity, is increasingly unlikely.
With 60 deputy votes out of the total 101 seats, the communists were last week one vote short of appointing prime minister Zinaida Greceanii as new head of state. The three pro-Western parties in opposition boycotted the vote and announced they would do the same on Wednesday. Under Moldova’s Constitution, a second failure to elect a president leads to the dismantling of Parliament and to early elections. And according to analyst Dan Dungaciu, an expert in ex-Soviet affairs, Voronin’s party would certainly lose these elections. If only because it wouldn’t have enough time to rig them.
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