In November 2017, there were published two polls whose results confirm the expanding support for the European course. But the proportions of these positive tendencies differed from poll to poll, political pundit Dionis Cenusa said in an analysis article for IPN News Agency.
According to the author, the poll conducted by the Institute of Marketing and Polls IMAS is dominated by unnatural pro-European optimism. Its results are comparable with the level of Euro-optimism witnessed in Moldova in 2010, two years before the hunting scandal in the Domneasca Forest and four years before the disclosure of the banking fraud.
There is also a discrepancy between the support for the EU when it is formulated one geopolitical option and, respectively, in the case of two distinct courses. This difference is of about 4% in the case of the IMAS poll and of less than 1% in the Public Opinion Barometer (POB).
Dionis Cenusa noted that both of the polls were carried out practically in the same period of time, November – December 2017, when public attention was caught by the government’s request to the EU for a European perspective, the results of the fifth Eastern Partnership Summit and the signing of the agreement on macro-financial assistance with the EU.
However, the IMAS and POB polls showed doses of Euro-optimism that differ by about 12-17% from each other, the IMAS poll commissioned by the Democratic Party being very positive. Though, even the IMAS poll contains incongruent data.
The expert said the main factors that contributed to the expansion of Euro-optimism reside in the active promotion of the European orientation by the government, articulation of a more pro—active position by the EU and the limited impact of the rapprochement with the Eurasian Union promoted by President Igor Dodon and the Party of Socialists.
