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| The Republic of Moldova Elections 07/12/2010 |
| (2010-12-07) |
| Last updated: 2010-12-08 13:09 EET |
The pro-Western parties in the ex-Soviet Republic of Moldova with a predominantly Romanian-speaking population have won the recently held elections, but are not dead sure they would stay in power. That, we have to say, is not an unusual paradox in Eastern Europe in the last two decades. All told, in the parliamentary elections on November 28th, the three parties making up the present ruling coalition, the Liberal Democratic Party, the Democratic Party and the Liberal Party got 59 seats outnumbering the seats obtained by the Pro-Russian opposition parties, that is 42.
The Alliance for European Integration however, cannot impose a new president of the Republic, as it needs 61 votes out of a total number of 101. Yet the Alliance is entitled to form the government, and can also elect the speaker of Parliament, who could also be ad-interim head of state, albeit temporarily. If doing the counts is as simple as it can be, the political flipside is a great deal murkier. The media claims that a new communist-democrat parliamentary majority has taken shape, although that is an off-the - record piece of news.
Ostensibly, the leaders of the two parties continue to pretends negotiations are still underway lest they should be accused of taking the decision at the order of Moscow that was very quick in sending its envoys to Chisinau. But what makes the scenario plausible is the staff of the Democratic Party itself. The party’s top executive, Marian Lupu, is a former high-ranking communist, and it is only last year that he converted himself to the European values.
Some sources concurrently say the so-called honorary president Dumitru Diacov is a veteran of the Soviet intelligence services. As for the party’s main financier, tycoon Vlad Plahotniuc, his connections with the much-feared Russian mafia are countless. So those are the interlocutors Liberal-Democrat Prime Minister Vlad Filat and the ad interim president, Liberal Mihai Ghimpu, try to persuade to keep the coalition together.
Ghimpu is not very happy to admit the Democratic Party is in a position of power. Filat warns that, QUOTE, “the only solution for the future of the republic is restoring the Alliance”. UNQUOTE, and that any other governing formula could betray the electorate’s options. That should come as a stark reminder for Lupu and company, and civic organizations have called for the picketing of the Democratic Party headquarters. Political pundits are skeptical about the moral arguments gaining ground over anything else.
They also say, however, that purely pragmatic details might prompt the Democratic Party to preserve the ruling coalition as it is. A leftist coalition might choke off financially, as the West would simply cut its generous financial support the Filat government has enjoyed so far. Furthermore, neither the communists nor the Democrats can choose a new president. Within a year from now, the Parliament would have to be dissolved again, and voters might place tough sanctions against those who betrayed them.
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