After seeing Iurie Leancă on TV, summing up the results of the joint meeting of the Governments of Moldova and Romania, the IPN experts and the general public remembered how the construction of the Iaşi-Ungheni gas pipeline was officially launched on August 27, 2014.
Then, three weeks before the start of the parliamentary election campaign, Premier Leancă assured us that: “We commit ourselves and I’m convinced that in at most two years we will have all the elements needed to be able to purchase gas only from Romania, eventually if we ascertain at that stage that the prices are much more reasonable and I have reasons to believe it will be so”.
The experts noted four, not two years passed and we are now again before the start of the parliamentary election campaign. It seems that we hear the same promise, but this is not so. Now we are told we will be able to purchase gas from Romania too as from January 1, 2020, while in 2014 we were told we will be able to purchase gas only from Romania as from 2016.
The strategic aspect of the gas pipeline remains yet topical: “We will then be able to negotiate with Russia and to choose what’s best for Moldova”. Who can guess when these words were said – in 2014 or 2018?
Trapped in another type of commitments, Igor Dodon was again in Moscow. This time he delivered a speech of almost half an hour in the State Duma of Russia. The authors of a new Sic! article said that after the standard discussion about the historical friendship between our countries, the President reached the contemporary period. Igor Dodon spoke about Transnistria and thanked Russia for what it did to maintain peace on the Nistru.
Referring to this, the Sic! authors noted the actions taken by the Russian army and officials weren’t at all impartial and helped the separatist regime. The direct involvement of the Russian troops against Chisinau inclined the war balance in favor of Tiraspol and there was obtained a peace that meant the de facto independence of Transnistria from Moldova. From this perspective, President Dodon has an at least strange view on what the territorial integrity of the country meant.
Without heavy stones on his political neck, the leader of the Party “Dignity and Truth Platform” Andrei Năstase said the bloc “Acum” they formed together with the Party “Action and Solidarity” will not form a coalition with the Party of Socialists and the Democratic Party in Parliament, if these parties enter the next legislature as polls show.
According to him, in such a situation the two parties will fail swiftly. “We will not form an alliance with bandits,” noted the politician.
Forgetting about “concrete”, “principles and values” and other “famous” expressions, the leader of the Liberal Party Mihai Ghimpu announced he will not apply for the post of leader of the party in the next congress of the PL. He noted he also does not want to run in the upcoming parliamentary elections, either on the party list or in a single-member constituency. He said the party hasn’t yet discussed the candidates for the party’s presidency and he does not know if the former mayor of Chisinau Dorin Chirtoacă will compete.
Without any connection with the decline of the “Ghimpu era”, starting with November 26, two buses will run on route No. 24 that ensures connection between Colonița and Chisinau, not one bus as now.
Contacted by IPN, Angela Zaporojan, mayor of Colonița village that forms part of Chisinau municipality, said the buses will run at an interval of 25 minutes and they hope the problem of crowdedness in public transport in Colonița, especially at rush hour, will be thus solved.
The mystery of the resignation tendered by the National Bank governor continues. “Given that Mister Cioclea is a very good specialist and he returned to the country to actually help the Republic of Moldova, I want to tell you that we are preparing him for another post or position, at home or abroad,” stated the Speaker, without providing details.
In reply, National Bank governor Sergiu Cioclea described Parliament Speaker Andrian Candu’s statements that he is being prepared for another post or position, at home or abroad as a joke that was probably intended to be cajoling.
“By tendering my resignation, I stated my wish to resume my personal life and to continue an independent professional career in the public or political sphere of the Republic of Moldova,” Sergiu Cioclea stated.
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