The leader of the Electoral Bloc “European People’s Platform of Moldova - Iurie Leanca” voiced hope that the EaP Summit of Riga will be like a cold shower for the Moldovan authorities. In a new conference on May 22, the ex-Premier said forming a functional pro-European majority in Parliament is the only solution for restoring the European partners’ confidence and obtaining their support, IPN reports.
“The summit is an occasion for ascertaining a number of sad things showing that our country follows a wrong path. I hope this summit, with results that lack relevance and significance for our future, will be like a cold shower for the Moldovan authorities and I hope it will allow us all to draw certain conclusions,” stated the politician.
Iurie Leanca noted that the Riga Summit cannot be compared with the Vilnius Summit, where Moldova set a number of objectives and managed to obtain results, including the visa-free regime with the EU. The Riga Summit was to become another event, where particular positive developments at internal and foreign levels would have been underlined and which would also have allowed us to shape a dramatic change in the quality and quantity of our relationship with the EU.
The ex-Premier said that a functional pro-European and pro-reform parliamentary majority should be immediately created in Moldova, which would come with very clear objectives and with the commitment to promote reforms in each area. Only such a functional majority can restore people’s confidence in the capacities of the state institutions to do reforms and the European partners’ confidence.
The Bloc’s candidate for the mayoralty of Chisinau Oazu Nantoi said the way in which Moldova is treated at the Riga Summit shows we reached a very dangerous stage – dangerous for the internal political stability, for the regional securely and even for Moldova’s statehood. “We must ascertain that as a result of the premeditated blocking of the partnership between Moldova and the EU and of the implementation of the Association Agreement with the EU and as a result of the self-discrediting of the political class before the own voters, Moldova became very vulnerable to external challenges,” he stated.
