Executive director of the Association for Participatory Democracy (ADEPT) Igor Botan considers that Igor Dodon entered a very close relationship with the ruling Democratic Party even if he in the election campaign called on his opponents to sign a kind of commitment not to cooperate with the PDM. In an interview for Radio Free Europe, the analyst said everyone in the country and abroad speaks about a Plahotniuc-Dodon duo or cartel, but the strategy implemented by the two politicians is based on polarization. Therefore, it is important for them to show that they do not make a common cause and a protest under the aegis of the presidential administration would be a kind of solution for the bipolar system, IPN reports.
Igor Botan said Iggor Dodon certainly needs a protest, but a fake protest, but the problem is that he entered a very close relationship with the ruling Democratic Party. “And this was confirmed for several times, when the posts of ambassadors were distributed and when the posts were re-distributed in important state-run companies, mainly at Moldovagaz, and in adopting the mixed-member electoral system. Polarization is the main idea in the strategy implemented by Mister Dodon and Mister Plahotniuc. They, being a duo or a cartel, cannot form a bipolar system on the political arena in Moldova. That’s why it is important for them to show that they that they do not make a common cause and that they dissociate themselves from each other and the idea of a protest under the aegis of the presidential administration would be a kind of solution for the bipolar system that Mister Dodon, together with Mister Plahotniuc, build here, in the Republic of Moldova,” he stated.
The analyst considers the opposition that seeks the annulment of the law to introduce the mixed electoral system will not accept Igor Dodon near because they have different agendas. The emerging pro-European opposition says the law to introduce this system should be annulled, while President Dodon wants to protest as if against the Constitutional Court’s decision whereby the referendum was banned. The referendum was also invented, while the accusations made by Igor Dodon against the Constitutional Court are ridiculous. On March 4, when the same judges of the CC, with Romanian nationality, opened the way for direct presidential elections and banned Usatyi and Dorin Chirtoaca from running by keeping the age limit for candidates, Igor Dodon didn’t react.
The ADEPT director considers a protest by President Dodon and the Socialists, if this takes place, will be a protest to show only dissociation with the government. “I think Mister Dodon has enough supporters. The problem is that he will have to coordinate the approximate number of protesters with the Democratic Party so that he is believed that he indeed dissociated himself from the PDM,” stated the analyst.
After the Constitutional Court last week decided that the presidential decree to hold a national consultative referendum is unconstitutional, the National Council of the Party of Socialists announced that a protest in support of the President’s initiatives and against the political activism of the CC will be mounted on September 24, when the plebiscite was to take place.
