Ex-minister of education Maia Sandu transmitted a message on the occasion of the large-scale protest mounted in the Great National Assembly Square on September 6. “If the people of this country had an alternative, the country would have more than the appearance of democracy. If the people could choose one way or another, our state would be a functional democracy. It’s not for the first time I tell you that this is not so. You all see that our state is held hostage by the oligarchic system. With small exceptions, the political sphere of Moldova is the arena of a game of power between persons who control and use the country’s resources as they want,” reads the message quoted by IPN.
Maia Sandu says that this state in which those who are in power do not represent, but make use of those who chose them steals the country’s future and surely the present. At each moment, the Moldovans are deprived of the possibility of choosing. “We cannot expect the possibility of choosing from the oligarchized policy of Moldova. Moreover, we saw very well lately how the efforts with good results made in a particular area can fail if the state institutions do not support each other and are not further supported by a democratic process,” reads the message.
The former minister also wrote that we can all put up with the increasing feeling of lack of choice slowly, if we do not decide to become ourselves the alternative that we need. Politics is not the only method of making the voice of a whole people heard. It is not the only way of organizing the wishes and hopes of the people. On the contrary, without civil society the political class can only pretend to be representing the people.
“Only civil society can set the right direction of politics. The politicians cannot ignore civil society, which is the main voice of the people. They do not care much about isolated individuals. The authority and good faith of civil society are more credible namely because civil society is not engaged in the political game. Those who denigrate the attempts to constitute civil society are also different politicians. They denigrate them because they are afraid of the crowd of people united by consciousness, a unity that will become more powerful than they,” said Maia Sandu, adding that the act of giving birth to civic consciousness is the event by which the people understand that they are the power.
