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| Media headlines 30/11/2010 |
| (2010-12-01) |
| Last updated: 2010-12-01 17:16 EET |
“The leader of the Democratic Party, Marian Lupu, will decide the fate of the Republic of Moldova: communism or Europe”, headlines the Bucharest newspaper Adevarul after Sunday’s legislative elections in this ex-Soviet state with a majority Romanian speaking population.
Led by self-entitled reformed communists, the Democratic Party, a partner of the Liberals in the current coalition, “wants to keep options open”. From the right, Liberal leader Mihai Ghimpu calls for the preservation of the Alliance for European Integration, which analysts say “has a good chance of staying in power, something many foreign partners from the West want very much to happen”.
From the left of the political spectrum, Adevarul also writes, the leader of the pro-Russian communists, Vladimir Voronin, says his party is “ready for government and wants to negotiate the formation of the government with the Democratic Party”.
Evenimentul Zilei notes, however, that “Lupu is aware that any possible combination with the Communists’ Party may turn his party into a political corpse”, as was the case with the Christian Democrats, who surrendered to Voronin after acting as the spearhead of the anticommunist struggle.
The paper thus believes “Moldova will continue on the pro-European path”. In an interview to Romania Libera, president Traian Basescu reiterated that Bucharest’s goal is to support the Republic of Moldova’s entry into the European Union so the two states “can be together in the big European family”, as he put it.
The president also said that 70,000 applications for Romanian citizenship from Moldova have been approved this year alone. Regardless of the objections raised by some of Romania’s western partners, the president believes that when half of the population of the Republic of Moldova has dual citizenship, “it only means that there will be more Romanians.” Traian Basescu also said that it is precisely Moscow’s attitude towards Chisinau and the maintenance of Russian troops in the break-away region of Transnistria are the cause of mistrust in Romanian-Russian relations.
He also spoke about what he called “Russia’s hostility towards Romania” and said the big Eastern power can at any time become Romania’s friend as long as it respects its interests.
With regard to the relationship with Paris, Bucharest’s traditional ally, president Basescu admits that it has lately been marred by the scandal of the nomad Roma and by France’s reservations about Romania’s joining the Schengen area. The president said, however, that he can settle any bilateral disagreement with his counterpart Nicolas Sarkozy, whom he meets once every three months.
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