Political analysts Petru Bogatu considers the protests in Chisinau have been already thwarted. According to him, a group of protesters attacked a group of unionists in central Chisinau and this means thwarting of the protests staged in the Great National Assembly Square by the pro-Russian groups of Igor Dodon and Renato Usatyi. The analyst made such statements in an interview for Radio Free Europe, quoted by IPN.
“In fact, the presence of the leader of the Platform “Dignity and Truth” Andrei Nastase near these two leaders seems like props to me. It is like pro-European, democratic covering for a pro-Russia or even pro-Putin anti-government protest. I’ve got the impression that the slogans and demands have been lately not only unrealistic and counterproductive, but have even become harsher and lead to nowhere,” he stated.
Pentru Bogatu is convinced that corruption cannot be combated and it is impossible to fight the oligarchic system with two extremely dubious representatives of this oligarchic system. “It is now not a demonstration aimed at returning things to normality and freeing the captured state because the protests were actually ‘confiscated’. I don’t know, for example, how many pro-Europeans were there in the columns I saw yesterday as the presence of the leaders of the Platform “Dignity and Truth” gives the impression that these cover a mainly pro-Russian protest with sympathizers of Renato Usatyi and Igor Dodon, who want only to seize power and change the political course,” he stated.
Petru Bogatu doubts it that with the coming of Renato Usatyi and Igor Dodon to power, the regime will become more democratic than now. “On the other hand, these absolutely exaggerated demands – early elections and others – are simply unrealistic and are actually a call for liquidating the political system by using force because early elections cannot be now held by legal, constitutional ways,” he said.
The analyst considers the assistance on the part of the development partners will be unblocked if the Government shows that it can resist, on the one hand, and that it is ready to meet people’s demands on the other hand. The pressure exerted by the population on the government is legitimate and the current oligarchic system must be indeed destroyed, but the authorities could now also take a first step and satisfy some of the demands by changing something at the Prosecutor General’s Office and adopting a new law on the prosecution service that will make the prosecutors more independent from political matters and more dependent hierarchically on the prosecutor general.
