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In November, pro-European Maia Sandu defeated outgoing President Igor Dodon, a member of the Socialist Party and openly supported by Russia, in presidential elections.
Promising to curb corruption in one of Europe’s poorest countries during the campaign, he protested at a protest on Sunday, which organizers said drew some 50,000 people. people, did not distance themselves from the promises.
Scanpix / AP photo / Protesters in Moldova
“We will go to the end until we cleanse this country of corrupt politicians,” Sandu said.
The protesters have been brought to the streets by a law passed last week that would transfer control of the Moldovan information and security service run by the president and the country’s intelligence agency to parliament. The law was backed by the Socialists and the party of businessman Ilan Shoro, who has been accused of fraud and money laundering.
AFP / “Scanpix” nuotr./Igoris Dodonas
According to political scientist Dionis Cenusa, it was believed that M. Sandu would use these institutions to obtain information related to I. Dodon’s activities, smuggling and security concerns. And that information can be contradictory.
Sandu himself and his followers say the goal is to downplay the role of the presidency and strengthen parliament, where there are currently more Donodon supporters.
Cenusa said both the sandals and Dodon’s supporters seeking to weaken him were in the interest of the snap elections, which are currently being demanded by protesters.
Sandu would benefit from the elections as soon as possible, as he could use his success in the presidential elections to strengthen his party, which currently has 14 seats in parliament. And after the snap elections, about 30 out of 101 could wait for them. ” 15 minutes said D.Cenusa.
According to the analyst, the Socialist Party is also interested in early elections, they have been promising them for several months.
“Dodon has always said that after the presidential elections he will decide exactly when to hold them. It is important for socialists to synchronize the early elections with a situation where they feel politically secure. Now it is not logical that they hold elections because they have just lost the presidential elections. They better wait until spring, ”says D.Cenusa.
Won’t Sandu’s followers increase?
According to D. Cenusa, the Socialist Party acts independently of Russia to limit the powers of M Sandu. On the one hand, the president-elect tries to portray relations with Moscow in the best possible light, but his main objective is to weaken the Sandu house.
“Limit your ability to make quantitative changes,” he said.
Can an attack by the rulers increase Sandu’s popularity? Hardly my D.Cenusa. The same people who voted for and against I. Dodon participate in the protests and are angry with the rulers.
„Scanpix“ / ITAR-TASS nuotr./Maia Sandu
According to the analyst, the protests will continue if the Sandu “Action and Solidarity” party and the opposition “Platforma DA” find funds for it.
“But I don’t see much sense in doing it, because the socialists also want early elections. This is the moment of the election,” he said.
At the same time, the position proposes that M. Sandu be sworn in as of December 10, when the Constitutional Court officially confirms her victory. Currently, the inauguration is scheduled for December 24.
Requirements for Russia
Russia, which supported Dodon, accused the United States before the presidential elections in Moldova that it was preparing a “revolution” in this eastern European country by intervening in the elections in Belarus and Kyrgyzstan.
At the first post-election press conference, Sandu called on Russian troops to withdraw from Transnistria: he said that Moldova had never accepted their presence in a region that had declared its independence after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
He also called on the Russian peacekeepers to be replaced by civilian observers from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE).
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Moscow “could hardly accept such irresponsible demands” and that such a proposal from M. Sandu “is unlikely to help the settlement process.”
It is true that Sandu promised to maintain a “real balance” in foreign policy and a “pragmatic dialogue with all countries, including Romania, Ukraine, European countries, Russia and the United States” after the elections.
For their part, parliamentarians belonging to the Socialist Party managed to pass a bill that would give the Russian language a special status. Dodon promised to sign the law even before Sandu took office.
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