President Igor Dodon and Democratic heavyweights Pavel Filip and Dumitru Diacov divide the posts of Moldova’s ambassadors, said PPPDA MP Iurie Reniță. In a news conference, the MP stated that realizing that they do not have chances of being successful at external level with their balanced foreign policy, Dodon, Diacov and Filip started to openly trade in the posts of ambassador, IPN reports.

“Now they are preoccupied exclusively with the promotion of their political clientele, which served them obediently and docilely during the past few years, to the posts of ambassador. The appointment of the new ambassadors became again a bargain in Balkan and Fanariot styles and with multiple Soviet and ex-Soviet elements between Dodon, Filip and Diacov. Namely these personages openly distribute the posts to their political clientele,” stated the MP.

Iurie Reniță noted that Emil Druc and Emil Jacotă were proposed for ambassadors several months ago, but now other persons are to be promoted to these posts. Irina Vlah’s cousin Valentin Vlah is to be suggested for ambassador to Azerbaijan instead of Emil Jacotă.

“The proposal to name Emil Druc as ambassador has been gathering dust at the Parliament’s commission for foreign policy and European integration for two months, while the proposal in the case of Emil Jacotă hasn’t been yet sent to the commission by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, even if both of the candidates received the agreement from Canada and Azerbaijan long ago,” stated the MP.

“The process of promoting relatives and children to diplomatic posts was continued even by Speaker Zinaida Grechanyi, who nominated her daughter as Moldova’s Representative to the Eurasian Union of which we do not even form part,” said Iurie Reniță.

The MP also spoke about the return of former PDM member Andrei Popov to the diplomatic service, in the post of ambassador with special missions. “Diacov had to repay foreign affairs minister Mihai Popov who in 1992 sent him from Bucharest directly to Moldova’s Embassy in Moscow at a time when career diplomats were to work at the central office of the Ministry of Florien Affairs for four, five or six years before reaching an embassy. “That’s why his son Andrei Popov returned to the diplomatic service.”

Making reference to Moldova’s ex-foreign affairs minister Andrei Galbur, Iurie Reniță said that he was promoted to this post by former minister Andrei Stratan because Galbur’s father served as Stratan’s deputy when this was customs chief. Later, Andrei Galbur was promoted to the post of Ambassador in Moscow by Vlad Filat and Iurie Leancă and later to the post of minister of foreign affairs by Vlad Plahotniuc and Pavel Filip.

“The Soviet tradition and tradition of gratitude continue to be applied so as to promote persons to posts as successfully in the ex-Soviet period as well,” concluded the MP.