Romania and Ukraine had different fears related to the change of power in the Republic of Moldova. While Ukraine feared the restoration of the relationship with the Russian Federation at its borders, a part of the decision makers in Bucharest still supported the representatives of the former government. The issue was developed in the talk show “Politics of Natalia Morari” on TV8 channel, IPN reports.

“Things for Romania were fully different as Romania didn’t expect such a turn and the reaching of such an agreement between two extremes, the right and the left, in Chisinau. What neither Romania nor Ukraine understood is that there is a much bigger problem in Moldova and this is called mafiotization of the state,” said journalist Ion Terguță.

He noted that a kind of collapse at the level of intelligence services occurred in Romania as there was a project about which not much was known. “Romania probably tried something else in the Republic of Moldova than it apparently employed and at a certain moment had to adjust the scenarios,” stated the journalist, referring to the fact that Romania counted on the leader of the PDM Vladimir Plahotniuc and didn’t anticipate the replacement of government in Moldova.

Sorin Ioniță, head of the Romanian Association “Expert-Grup”, said there are yet risks threatening the parliamentary majority formed in Chisinau given the rather different views of the two forces that created this coalition. The agreement reached in Chisinau is not entirely ordinary and the Romanian authorities thus do not know how to react.