Those who come to power in Chisinau and in Bucharest actually accumulate political advantages based on the union idea, but this desideratum is wanted neither by Bucharest nor Chisinau or by the great powers, director of the Association for Participatory Democracy (ADEPT) Igor Botan stated in a public debate entitled “Unionists, statehood supporters and ‘nostalgic people’: confrontation of ideas about the right and capacity of the Republic of Moldova to be an independent state” that was staged by IPN News Agency in partnership with Radio Moldova.
Igor Botan, who is the IPN project’s permanent expert, said the Constitutions of Russia and Germany, for example, include articles that enable the union of particular territories. This argument was used in the process of annexing Crimea to Russia. “Romania does not want such an article in its Constitution,” stated the expert. According to him, the Romanian politicians, as the Moldovan ones, promote unionist politicianism because this brings the votes of the electors who pursue this ideal.
“We know that the used examples, Germany and Russia, are very important and these unions occurred in force majeure situations. Germany was unified when the USSR realized that that German state was collapsing. The interests of the Soviets and the Americans too were promoted there. Our unionists cannot say what the motivation of the great powers to support the union with Romania is. We now have a coordinator of the government who decides everything, while the unionists do not go to this person to ask him to do something for the union. I say this to show that there is unionist politicianism and nothing else,” stated the expert.
In another development, Igor Botan said he believes that Moldova can exist as a state, while the national idea embraced by any citizen is that the country must have honest and just government. “If the government is clean, has common sense, discusses with all the ethnic groups, implements good governance in Moldova, this can lay the basis of a process for solving all the problems,” stated the director of ADEPT.
The public debate “Unionists, statehood supporters and ‘nostalgic people’: confrontation of ideas about the right and capacity of the Republic of Moldova to be an independent state” is the 59th installment of the series of debates “Developing political culture by public debates”, produced with the assistance of the German Foundation “Hanns Seidel”.
