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| WHAT IS HAPPENING IN THE REPUBLIC OF MOLDOVA? 17/06/2009 |
| (2009-06-17) |
| Last updated: 2009-06-18 17:49 EET |
This severe diagnosis belongs neither to the Liberal opposition nor to the politicians in the neighbouring Romania, but to a study by the European External Relations Council. The difficulties facing Kishinew are generated by the intersection of the economic crisis with the political crisis, the study also reads.
The violent protests that followed the April elections, sparked by accusations of electoral fraud, with the opposition saying that 10 to 20% of the votes were rigged, paralysed the political system just as the administration was called upon to tackle vigorously the deterioration of the country’s economy. Early elections have now been called for July after Parliament was dissolved because it wasn’t able to elect a successor to Vladimir Voronin, the communists’ strongman who has already served two terms in office and is no longer allowed to run for a third. The EU study fears this situation may prolong the government’s inactivity in the economic area.
The authors of the EU report recommend Brussels to grant Kishinew macroeconomic assistance and draw up a roadmap for the eliminations of visas for its citizens provided the communist regime strips police action of all political influence and puts an end to harassment of the media. Meanwhile, the different camps are regrouping in Kishinew awaiting the new elections much to the confusion of the voters. The Christian Democrats’ leader Iurie Rosca, once the spearhead of the country’s de-Sovietisation and a tireless advocate of Moldova’s reunification with Romania, has been recruited as deputy prime minister in the communist government.
The former communist speaker of Parliament, Marian Lupu, a former rising red star and Vladimir Voronin’s possible successor, has gone over to the opposition. The foreign minister Andrei Stratan is no longer able to hide his adversity to some of his party colleagues. To top it all, several retired generals, veterans of the war against the pro-Russian separatists in Transnistria, accused Voronin, himself a former Soviet militia officer, of undermining the rule of law and demanded him to step down from all political positions as he is nothing but a “factor of instability in society”, to quote the generals.
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