Idea of AEI forming joint electoral bloc is irrational, experts

Valeriu Prohnitski and Alex Oprunenko, experts of the independent analytical center Expert-Grup, consider it is not rational for the Alliance for European Integration (AEI) to jointly take part in the coming early legislative elections. Besides, it will be hard to achieve such an objective, according to them, Info-Prim Neo reports. In an analysis, the experts say the constitutional referendum showed there are not many fundamental and ideological things that unite the components of the governing alliance. Moreover, the alliance during the last year could not formulate key messages that would have been accepted by the supporters of the member parties and could not constitute a joint standing secretariat that would have coordinated their actions. It is hard to image that they will succeed in coping with these drawbacks and differences, the experts say. “Creating a joint block is not a rational idea as a large number of other-language speaking voters and supporters of center-left parties, who will vote for the Democratic Party if it takes part in elections separately, would be estranged,” said the authors of the analysis. They consider that the Communists Party (PCRM) will profit from this situation. According to them, even if the failure of the referendum is rather the AEI's failure than the PCRM's success, the Communists will try to equate the electoral apathy and the alliance's incoherence with the confidence given by the population to the Opposition. Valeriu Prohnitski and Alex Oprunenko believe the role of the foreign factors will increase in the coming election campaign. They say some of the components of the AEI will aim to reestablish the relations with Russia so as not to allow the PCRM to monopolize this country's status of “friend” or “partner” of Moldova.