Political parties are businesses in which money is invested before elections and the investments are recovered after the ballot, according to speakers at the concluding session of the National Convention for European Integration. They also think that politicians use the government as an administrative rent only to get rich, IPN reports.
Arcadie Barbarosie, executive director of the Institute of Public Policies, said the November 30 elections proved once again that the parties are merely businesses and stressed the need to adopt the Law on the public financing of parties. People must understand that having parties financed by oligarchs costs them a lot more in the end. According to Barbarosie, civil society has supported the governments since 2009, but after the recent elections, it won't trust the government in advance anymore. Civil society has to monitor the new Cabinet from its very first days and criticize it harshly when it takes a wrong step.
Igor Botan, head of the Association for Participatory Democracy (ADEPT), thinks that there will be post-electoral problems regarding the creation of the coalition and civil society groups have already started to put pressure on the parties and this pressure will only grow. “My opinion is that the government must be pressed from one side by the European Commission and from the other side by Moldovan society, in order to eliminate those who use the government as a political and administrative rent to get rich through various corrupt schemes”, said Botan. The analyst explained that Moldovan political elites are specific and focused on earning profits and the government is the best place to do it. “I'm not saying they don't have any patriotic feelings, they probably do, but their patriotic feelings derive from their desire to enrich themselves”, said Igor Botan.
Anatol Taranu, director of the Institute of Political Analysis and Consultancy “Politicon”, remarked that the pro-European coalition before the ballot had 54 seats and the post-electoral one has 55. “In this regard, there has been no change. This was a victory for the pro-Europeans, a hard-worked victory, we all know how it was obtained, but in politics the result is what matters and this is what we got”, said Taranu.
In the parliamentary elections on November 30, PSRM obtained 20.51% of votes (25 seats), PLDM – 20.16% (23 seats), PCRM – 17.48% (21 seats), PDM – 15.80% (19 seats) and PL – 9.67% (13 seats).
