The inefficiency of Moldovan governments is the main source that fuels unionism, expert in political sciences Dionis Cenusa says in an analysis article for IPN Agency.
Even if the European integration offers the instruments needed to build new or additional institutional and financial capacities to improve the living conditions of the population, its potential is poorly realized, considers the politologist.
According to Dionis Cenusa, each failure of the pro-European governments advantages the unionist forces and not only. The expansion of unionism serves as a stimulus for the pro-Russian parties that ably exploit the geopolitical phobias of the public for obtaining electoral gains.
The competition between the project of European integration as an independent state and, respectively, the pro-European unionism entails double political gains for the pro-Russian forces. On the one hand, this mobilizes the social categories sensible to political approaches. On the other hand, this discredits simultaneously the European integration and unionism, both being described as destabilizing elements for Moldovan statehood and the values on which this is based (Russian Orthodoxy, etc.).
The expert reminds that the introduction of the mixed-member electoral system in July 2017, which enables to broaden the geopolitical discrepancies that divide further the split society, was an important twist.
The expansion of the Moldovan nationalism that is promoted by the Party of Socialists and is closely connected with the Russian geopolitical space could be one of the consequences of the mixed voting, said Dionis Cenusa.
He believes the list of losers could include the pro-European extraparliamentary opposition that, even if it reaches Parliament, could have insufficient power owing to the emerging pro-European unionist pole.
The ruling Democrats are those who want to manage the political circumstances, including those related to the strengthening of the pro-European unionists, in order to ensure a comfortable entry in the future legislature, concluded the politologist.
