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Moldavian primitivism
The President announced the collapse of the coalition
Moldovan President Vladimir Voronin announced the collapse of the ruling coalition that emerged after the 2005 parliamentary elections. At a press conference on Wednesday, he noted: “Unfortunately, we can again talk about Moldovan politics as the most primitive, where there are exclusively two forces - the Communist Party and the opposition in general.”This statement appears to have been prompted by the results of the June local elections. According to their results, the Party of Communists (PCRM), led by the president, lost its leadership in most regions of the republic. And in the fight for the post of mayor of Chisinau, communist candidate Vasile Iordan lost to 28-year-old rival from the Liberal Party (PL) Dorin Chirtoaca. Moreover, last Tuesday, representatives of the PL, the Moldova Noastre (Our Moldova) alliance, the Christian Democratic People's Party (CDPP) and the Democratic Party, which received a total of 26 seats out of 51 in the capital's municipal council, announced the formation of a majority coalition . After this, 16 members of the Chisinau Council from the PCRM announced their transition to the opposition.
Let us recall that after the 2005 parliamentary elections, which were victorious for the PCRM, deputies from the CDPP and the Democratic Party, who had previously been in strong opposition to the communists, voted for the election of Vladimir Voronin for a second presidential term (the head of the Moldovan state is elected by the parliament). For this, PPCD leader Iurie Rosca received the position of vice-speaker. But since then the Communists have lost their former support from voters. And today their former allies are obviously trying to find more promising coalitions. Although the declared unification of municipal deputies around the PL, which is headed by one of the most odious Moldovan politicians, national radical Mihai Ghimpu, looks very scandalous.
The current situation in the Chisinau Municipal Council serves as a prototype of the one that may arise in the 2009 elections to the parliament of the republic, Deputy Chairman of the Republican People's Party Victor Josu noted in an interview with Vremya Novostei. It is already obvious that the authorities of neighboring Romania intend to support both the capital’s mayor and the Liberal Party that nominated him, known for its pro-Romanian slogans. “But Russia does not see an alternative project with real candidates capable of winning the support of a large part of the local population, for whom the “Romanian vector” does not seem to be a panacea,” believes VN’s interlocutor.
According to Mr. Josu’s forecast, serious competition to the right could come from the adviser to the head of RAO UES of Russia, former Minister of Defense of Moldova Valery Pasat, who was recently released by the republic’s appeal chamber. It is unknown, however, how much this corresponds to the plans of Pasat himself, who served more than two years in a Moldovan prison, according to him, precisely for supporting the opposition in the 2005 election campaign. “In recent years, Moscow has preferred a situational response in Moldova to systematic political work for the future,” our interlocutor is sure. He called “stupid” Russia’s possible support for the PCRM and its leader Vladimir Voronin in the face of a new “right-wing threat.” Although it is possible that this is exactly what the Moldovan president was counting on when announcing the collapse of the previous coalition.