Less than two weeks before the presidential elections, the ongoing election campaign has acquired more pronounced Penal Code accents. The jail threats are the most often ones made right before the people or from TV screens, historian and publicist Gheorghe Cojocaru stated in an interview for Radio Free Europe, quoted by IPN.

According to him, some of the leaders of the anti-oligarchic opposition disseminate electoral slogans by which they promise to penalize the political opponents, while others threaten to put discrediting information about the situation of some of the representatives of the current government into circulation. Torrents of news about the macabre face of some of the opposition figures or their illegal businesses come from the TV channels affiliated to the power.

The historian noted that the ordinary people must understand from all these that the whole current political class is in a merciless war where everyone employs the available means and where only those who can survive. “The threats of long jail terms are not necessarily typical of the political sphere of the Republic of Moldova. They can be heard all over the region, especially during election campaigns. Such methods are used on other continents as well. However, such a cannibalization degree of the authorities, on the one hand, and of the opposition, on the other hand, as that witnessed in the current campaign has never been seen before,” stated Gheorghe Cojocaru.

He also said that a series of factors should be taken into account in the campaign, such as the financial, administrative and media resources of those involved in the competition. Taken together, these can significantly influence the general score. The ‘theft of the century’ provokes powerful emotions and is followed attentively, but the people also want to hear other things that influence their life today and tomorrow.