Political analyst Igor Botan, executive director of the Association for Participatory Democracy (ADEPT), considers the chairman of the Democratic Party Marian Lupu bluffs when he says that Moldova will submit an application for joining the EU until 2019. In an interview for Radio Free Europe, the analyst said the idea to file an application for Moldova to become a candidate for membership in the EU was promoted by the Liberal Democratic Party, which, in election campaigns, promised to lodge such an application in 2015-2016 and then Marian Lupu vehemently challenged this desideratum, IPN reports.
“I don’t know how, after the theft of the billion and its consequences, after political corruption and buying in a package of MPs, mayors and councilors, the Republic of Moldova can improve its image and file an application for joining the European Union by 2019,” stated Igor Botan.
The analyst noted that March is close to its end, but the budgetary-fiscal policy and the budget for this year haven’t been yet adopted. “This is the year of presidential elections about which we know nothing - will they take place or not, in what conditions? In a year we will be close to parliamentary elections, if these are ordinary ones, and this year will be lost again in political struggles etc. So, the promises made by Mister Marian Lupu seem puerile and unsubstantiated to me, especially because I saw the virulence by which this proposal was criticized when it was put forward by the Liberal-Democratic colleagues,” said the executive director of ADEPT.
Igor Botan wondered how the government can regain the external partners’ confidence when nothing is clear. “How can confidence be regained when the European Union’s resolution is ignored? This resolution says that the regulatory and rule of law institutions, their managers or members must be chosen at a contest and named in a transparent way. We see that the first test, to select the members of the Central Election Commission, was failed. What is the signal showing that these politicians are indeed ready to bring Moldova back to normality?” he asked.
The analyst noted that the Europeans are not blind and see and understand all these things and we should thus ask ourselves how they can trust Moldova.
