“There is crowdedness on the right, insignificant campaigning on the center and quietness on the left,” publicist and historian Gheorghe Cojocaru said, describing the situation on the electoral arena at the beginning of the election campaign. In an interview for Radio Free Europe, he said that it is useless to say who such a configuration advantages, especially because the independent candidates will collect votes also from the right most probably, IPN reports.
“On the Romanian Language Day, the candidates for President of Moldova started to appear one after another, as mushrooms after rain, even if the rain is now a rarer climatic phenomenon. The start of the election campaign was given and the platoon of forerunners and of those from the end of the list is now being constituted. The first statements of the aspirants say not much, but shape some profile lines so as to later define program platforms,” said the historian.
Gheorghe Cojocarua noted that neither the protesting opposition nor the current power, which both promised to field by a common candidate at particular moments, kept their word. The ruling parties and the parties of Andrei Nastase and Maia Sandu enter the electoral game with the own candidates even if it’s evident that a powerful common candidate would advantage them, as in the case of the government. For now, each of them prefer to count on the own forces, but could ultimately decide to change the adopted tactic and to join forces, if it won’t be too late.
As to the poll results, which say that the left can be already considered the winner of the presidential elections, Gheorghe Cojocaru said the Socialist left is rated as a winner, but the game is not yet over. The big fears of the election campaign, like the theft of the century and the strategic orientation of the Republic of Moldova, will most probably dominate the agenda of the debates, which are expected to be very harsh and to shape the electoral sympathies.
