The road to the snap parliamentary elections held according to a nonviolent scenario that does not destabilize is important. A lot depends on how Maia Sandu reacts, namely if she follows the path of confrontation, which she supported earlier, or the path of discussions with the PSRM and the Shor Party. The discussion with these parties will be a constructive gesture of political conciliation that will not necessarily produce unfavorable effects, political analyst Cornel Ciurea stated in IPN’s public debate “Snap parliamentary elections: necessities, possibilities, interests”.
According to the political analyst, it is not at all evident that snap elections must take place in the first half of 2021 because the budget is valid for a year and the Party of Socialists and the Shor Party could agree to organize the snap elections later. Beyond the date of snap elections, the procedure that will be followed to have such elections is more interesting.
The process was triggered by the Chicu Government’s resignation. But the calling of snap elections as a result of the self-dissolution of Parliament can be obtained as a result of juridical artifices of the Constitutional Court. This means the CC should somehow renounce the own decisions and should adopt a decision that would run counter to its previous judgments.
According to Cornel Ciurea, Maia Sandu can propose her own candidate for Prime Minister. Even if the Constitution bans this, no one can punish her. The PSRM or the Shor Party could then start their political game and reject this candidate or they could not reject this. The period of three months, of political impasse, during which a candidate for premiership will not be proposed is not a solution.
The political analyst said society, except for several local groups, such as the farmers, does not pronounce on different occasions, the politicians being those who form the political agenda. “I’m firmly convinced that the assertion about the Parliament’s illegitimacy is the product of politicians, not of society. At a certain moment in the course of this year, all the important parties in Parliament felt the need to declare this legislative body illegitimate […] At a certain moment, a political consensus on the fact that Parliament is illegitimate was reached, without hearing what society really said.
Cornel Ciurea believes the West, which supports Maia Sandu, wants snap elections, but such an action is risky for the results of the snap elections, which could be unsuitable for the right.
The public debate “Snap parliamentary elections: necessities, possibilities, interests” was the 165th installment of the series “Developing political culture through public debates” that is supported by the Hanns Seidel Foundation.
