Socialists and ACUM coalition uses political authority to intensify the decoupling of institutions from the previous influences of the Democratic Party. Prime Minister Maia Sandu, with the support of the majority in parliament, applies tactically the "lustration" policy in order to clean up the system of people loyal to the previous oligarchic regime and to replace them with people with high integrity, based on an open competition. With rapid steps, it is attempted to fight oligarchy and, at the same time, depoliticize the institutions that have shown the most institutional and political support to the former government, writes the political scientist Dionis Cenușa in an article signed for News Agency IPN.
With rapid steps, it is attempted to fight oligarchy and, at the same time, depoliticize the institutions that have shown the most institutional and political support to the former government, comments the political scientist.
In his opinion, there is a pressure, within the limits allowed by the law, to open institutions and eliminate those defect exponents that clearly subordinated and facilitated corruption schemes, from which the oligarchic center has benefited.
Thus, in just two weeks from when the coalition took the power, a range of resignations has been registered, including all Constitutional Court’s judges Anti-Corruption and General Police Inspectorate leadership, Public Property Agency’s director and the head of Information and Security Service, recalls Dionis Cenușa.
He believes that the new government's critical stake is to dismiss the General Prosecutor Eduard Harujen, whose mandate expires in 2020, and who still resists the public and political pressures. Another priority, observed by Dionis Cenușa, is to change the composition of the Central Electoral Commission, in parallel with changing the electoral law to return to the proportional vote.
Theoretically, releasing the prosecutor and CEC from old exponents will allow these institutions to connect to the new political agenda, where the real independence of the institutions prevails, comments the political scientist.
The process of de-oligarchization has received prematurely the rating of a "revolution", claims Dionis Cenușa. In reality, Moldova is going through a new redistribution of political power, which would not have been possible without the concert of foreign powers, and in particular Russia's strategic calculations
The persistence of the external factor postponed the political emancipation of the Moldovan citizens, which, unlike Georgia, Ukraine or Armenia, are placed on a secondary place. For all these reasons, everything is limited to a power transfer and a process of restoring institutional functionality, and less to a revolution, expressly and openly requested by the public, concludes the political scientist.
