The formation of a minority government, early parliamentary elections and Moldova’s union with Romania are some of the solutions to the crisis experienced by Moldova that were discussed today, December 18, in the public debate “Which is the ‘lesser evil’ for the Republic of Moldova: unstable parliamentary majority, early elections, union, something else?”, which was the 49th installment of the series “Development of political culture by public debates”, staged by IPN News Agency in cooperation with Radio Moldova.
Vitalia Pavlicenco, the leader of the National Liberal Party, said the union is the only solution to the profound crisis faced by the Republic of Moldova, when a parliamentary coalition cannot be formed. “Since the period of the Communists until now, things only worsened. Regretfully, Moldova is situated in a part of the world where there is a Russian army making sure that we do not move towards Europe or Romania and this favors unimaginable, absolute corruption. This level of corruption created a situation when several criminal political clans control the Republic of Moldova and each clan fears that the other clan can send them to jail. We have no parliamentary majority at least,” she stated.
“What we, the citizens, did so far for Republic of Moldova was only to accept ad-hoc solutions, which is to choose the lesser evil. The solution of the lesser evil is a short-term on. It does not remove the major handicaps and does not offer lasting solutions. Since the Republic of Moldova started to exist, we have witnessed many such situations when we had to choose the lesser evil and this evil is perpetuated,” said IPN project’s permanent expert Igor Botan, who is the executive director of the Association for Participatory Democracy.
Mihai Petrache, chairman of the Centrist Union Party of Moldova, considers the crisis can be overcome by radically changing the government system. “What we have today is a consequence of the utilization during 20 years of a defective and unbalanced system that generates inefficiency and complete collegial irresponsibility in the government system. We must remove the preconditions that allow the country not to be governed and nobody to bear responsibility for this turmoil that dominates in the country and generates corruption, thefts, nepotism, and prevents any other political force that promotes another idea from succeeding,” he stated, noting he believes the head of state should be elected by the people.
Victor Alexeev, head of the organization in Moldova of the Social Democratic Party of Romania, said he is against the direct election of the President because this will lead to the ‘Turkmenistanization’ of the state, while the Republic of Moldova, being the only country with a parliamentary system of government in the CIS, should remain so. The early legislative elections are not a solution either as these will represent a disaster and will completely change the country’s development course. The Liberal Democratic Party of Moldova is to blame for the current crisis and the Democratic Party can assume responsibility for the pro-European government. “We are aware that we now need a pro-European government. The Republic of Moldova has at most one year to cover the European integration path and to do the reforms required by the European community,” stated Victor Alexeev.
Ilian Casu, deputy head of the Political Party “Our Party”, thinks the early elections are a solution. “The early parliamentary elections are the most viable, democratic and important solution to the political crisis that is becoming worse. It’s no use speaking about a minority government. We already had such a government. Such things as a stable or unstable majority have neither theoretical nor practical value,” he said.
The debate “Which is the ‘lesser evil’ for the Republic of Moldova: unstable parliamentary majority, early elections, union, something else?” was the 49th installment of the series of debates “Development of political culture by public debate” that are held with the support of the Hanns Seidel Foundation.
