“I don’t think that a possible alliance between the so-called pro-European parties will last as these discredited themselves too much,” said the director of the Foreign Policy Association Victor Chirila. In an interview for Radio Free Europe, Chirila stated that it’s not known how solid such an alliance will be when so much anger accumulated, each party has so many sins and there is no visible wish to do reforms, IPN reports.
“Moreover, there is no capacity to do reforms and, what’s even worse, the people do not have confidence in these parties. Well-shaped confidence on the part of the people is needed to implement the reforms stipulated in the Association Agreement. This does not exist now. I think any reconstruction of the pro-European alliance will be to the detriment of society and of these parties as we will again become disappointed and these parties will again miss the last chance offered recently to them by the MEPs and the crisis will deepen further,” stated Victor Chirila.
He considers that for a reconstructed alliance to be successful, comprise is needed first of all between the three declared pro-European parties, but this is not enough. The future government should have a clearly structured mandate to do reforms, but this will not exist because these parties already think about the early parliamentary elections of next year.
Asked why the procedure for announcing early elections is not thus initiated, so as to bring the speculations and interpretations to an end, Victor Chirila said that they always try to stall on time in politics, with some hoping to secure a better position for the future elections this way. “I fear the situation is now different. We are facing a profound crisis and the only solution is for democracy to work. For this to happen, the people should be allowed again to choose who should govern this country,” stated the expert.
He also said that he does not believe that the Moldovan politicians changed as a result of the latest political events. A radical change is needed, which only the people can make. The political parties, civil society and the European partners should have confidence in the people of Moldova and should not excessively exaggerate the dangers. Society has enough force to cope with the attempts of the pro-Russian parties to review the foreign policy and reorient the country to the Eurasian Union and there are enough political forces and rather active civil society that can cope with such a danger.
