“Before the second round of local elections, the sociopolitical situation, especially the economic-financial one, looks like the lull before the storm: with a weak Government headed by an acting Prime Minster and with a very fragile minority parliamentary coalition,” historian and political analyst Gheorghe Cojocaru said in an interview for Radio Free Europe. According to him, the minority coalition cannot assume a firm commitment to implement the Association Agreement with the EU and avoids shedding light in the ‘theft of the century’, while its relations with the international financial institutions are practically frozen, IPN reports.
“The dangerous situation witnessed now is due to the those who in 2009 promised changes up to the end and who now suffer from untreatable political amnesia in this regard, but which confirms, by the return to a vicious circle, the inability of the current political class to make the changes expected by the ordinary people,” said the political analyst.
Speaking about the people’s vote for the ruling parties, Gheorghe Cojocaru said the Liberal Democratic Party and the Democratic Party obtained those scores because the people are inclined to vote for the power and because they didn’t see a real alternative on the political arena to which to direct their hopes.
The analyst also said that the real struggle for the mayoralty of Chisinau will be witnessed on June 28. “The capital will either turn back red or will keep the chance of becoming a pro-European city. As Dorin Chirtoaca’s election as mayor in 2007 anticipated the change of power in 2009, the victory of the opponents of the pro-European course in the mayoral elections would predict a complete twist. If mayor Dorin Chirtoaca loses the elections, this will be a failure of the Liberals and of all the current democratic parties. This will also doom to failure the whole pro-European project of the last few years,” stated Cojocaru.
In the second round of the mayoral elections in Chisinau on June 28, Zinaida Grecheanyi competes with Dorin Chirtoaca, of the Liberal Party.
