The European integration of the Republic of Moldova does not depend on the result of Sunday's election and the foreign partners will continue to support the citizens regardless of who will be the next head of state, said Deputy Speaker of Parliament Vlad Batrîncea, who is also the representative of the PSRM’s presidential candidate Alexandr Stoianoglo. According to him, the government artificially hysterizes society, linking an eventual failure of Maia Sandu in the election to the blocking of the European path of the Republic of Moldova, IPN reports.
Vlad Batrîncea described as false the rhetoric according to which, if Alexandr Stoianoglo is elected head of state, the foreign financial support will be blocked. According to him, as President, Stoianoglo will continue the European path of the Republic of Moldova.
"Alexandr Stoianoglo was part of the national parliamentary commission that negotiated the Association Agreement and contributed to the introduction of the liberalized visa regime. Maia Sandu knows this. She knows that Stoianoglo is a good man with an unimpeachable reputation, but that's how she was told to play politics. The Europeans say very clearly that, regardless of the outcome of this Sunday's elections, they will continue to help the people of the Republic of Moldova. The secretary of state of the Government of Romania said that Romania will continue to help the Republic of Moldova through various programs regardless of the outcome of the election. The scare that European integration, on which work has been done for the last 20-21 years, depends on the outcome of Sunday's elections is a lie," Vlad Batrîncea stated on RliveTV.
He accused the PAS government and candidate Maia Sandu of committing a series of abuses in the election campaign. "For the first time, the OSCE mission that is present in the Republic of Moldova, in its preliminary report on the first round, said that Maia Sandu used public resources, administrative resources to promote her candidacy. The OSCE noted that Maia Sandu's status was not clear, either she was a candidate or she was President, and Mrs. Sandu did not find it necessary to do what is done in European countries - to leave office of President during the election campaign. The OSCE mission, which includes a number of MEPs, also noticed that the public television channel and a number of supposedly free television stations favored the government’s candidate to a very large extent and disfavored the other candidates," stressed Vlad Batrîncea.
In the first round of the presidential election of October 20, the PAS candidate Maia Sandu obtained 42.49% of the vote, while the Party of Socialists’ candidate Alexandr Stoianoglo gained 25.95% of the ballot. The run-off election will be held on November 3. At the only electoral debate with the two opponents, Alexandr Stoianoglo proposed signing a joint declaration to guarantee the irreversibility of the European course. Stoianoglo avoided answering journalists' questions as to how this proposal fits in with his boycott of the referendum on the inclusion of the European course in the country's Constitution.
