The executive director of the Association for Participatory Democracy (ADEPT) Igor Botan considers there are risks that the current Government wil be dismissed by Parliament on October 29, when the censure motion submitted by the Socialists is to be debated. According to him, agreements were already reached, the scenarios were designed and very powerful messages were already disseminated. In an interview for Radio Free Europe, quoted by IPN, Botan said the alleged criminal cases started against politicians are crucial for the vote that will be held in Parliament on October 29.
“For the Liberal Democratic Party, the most important message is: the more they invoke and insist on the re-formation of the law enforcement bodies, the worse the situation of the leader of the Liberal Democratic Party Vlad Filat is. And we already saw how this is done. He was transferred from the remand unit of the National Anticorruption Center, where the conditions are more or less OK, to the most inhuman penitentiary in the Republic of Moldova,” said the ADEPT director.
Igor Botan noted that the meeting of the Council of the AEI 3 revealed that its components want the alliance to be re-formed and want to remain in power for the next three years, according to their mandate. But a series of problems appear here and each of them understands the re-formation their way. “We can metaphorically say that we have a system of equations with a number of unknowns and this leaves room for maneuvering for some of the players of this alliance,” she stated.
Asked if Mihai Ghimpu kept the role of the one who always inclined the balance in a particular direction, Botan said that Mihai Ghimpu’s game is to now save the alliance and not to concede a lot by possibly coopting the European People’s Party into the coalition so as to secure a formal majority of votes. Moreover, it is revenge on the PLDM and its leader Vlad Filat for the humiliation experienced in 2013, when the faction split up and Ghimpu was removed from power for about two years.
As to the PLDM, the ADEPT director said this party cannot simply abandon its leader as otherwise it will admit that it was ‘beheaded’. Most probably, the PLDM will be defeated. “The situation is very bad for the Liberal Democratic Party. On the one hand, they understand that they cannot leave the alliance and cannot promote the messages of the protesters, who seek early elections, which would be a solution for the situation in the Republic of Moldova. On the other hand, they do not have a leader and are split. As I said, the ‘unknown’ is whether the European People’s Party accepts to return to power after it refused to take part in the civic dialogue, saying it is an anti-system party that could eventually become a substitute for the political class of Moldova,” stated Botan.
