The critical challenge of the Moldovan political class is that on both radical ends of the political spectrum people are afraid that the other side wants to annihilate them, said Kalman Mizsei, the EU Special Representative for Moldova, in an interview offered to the news agency Info-Prim Neo. Speaking about the development of the Moldovan political elite during three years of his mandate as EUSR, Ambassador Mizsei remarked that Moldovan political class has together experienced some very testing times. “I would like to say that in spite of all the deficiencies, all have adhered to a minimum of democratic norms – which distinguishes the Republic of Moldova from many post-Soviet states”. However, according to him, challenges within the Moldovan political class are abound. “The critical one is that on both radical ends of the political spectrum people are afraid that the other side wants to annihilate them. That in spite of a generally extremely tolerant Moldovan society”. In his opinion, it is elementary that parliamentary parties should talk to each other and not to use insulting language to political opponents. “This should be stopped and civil society could do much more to consequently and in an unbiased manner monitor this and finally let politicians stop this. This would be a big leap forward. And parliamentary parties should start talking to each other – each of them. On one end, it is totally inappropriate to label the opposition party as Stalinist, on the other, to label part of the coalition fascists etc. Moldova, thanks God, does not have Stalinists and does not have fascists. It is a tolerant polity and politicians should not bewilder them. They need to talk and, again, civil society should demand this strongly. I should say that in this respect I would expect from an otherwise very vigorous and very European civil society also a bit more”, stated Kalman Mizsei in his interview with Info-Prim Neo. Kalman Mizsei was appointed EU Special Representative for Moldova on March 1, 2007 for a three-year term. Recently, the Council of the EU prolonged his term in office until August 31, 2010.