On December 1, 2018, on the National Day of Romania, Dorin Chirtoacă became president... of the Liberal Party (PL). As a party president should do, after the PL’s congress where he was elected to the given rank, Dorin Chirtoacă started to make very emphatic statements. Attention! Such statements should be regarded as being exclusively metaphorical: “The union remains our supreme ideal for which we should struggle up to the last drop of blood, until we make the Union. Moldova has no other chance or we will be doomed to poverty, thefts, disorder and disasters we witnessed and continue to witness.”
Anyone who is not ill-intended realizes that after Dorin Chirtoacă dropped in 2017 from the seat of mayor of Chisinau municipality, being suspected of influence peddling in the so-called ‘paid parking case’, he is profoundly marked by this dropping. We sincerely hope it will be proven that the case against him was fabricated. Namely for this purpose, he is ready to struggle until he is fully exhausted or, metaphorically speaking – up to the last drop of blood, so as to occupy other seats of the power, presumably for achieving the union objective. This is ultimately what the post of president of the PL obliges him to do. The PL, when it is in the opposition, pleads for achieving the ideal of Moldova’s union with Romania.
The fact that the PL is in the opposition allows the president of the PL to be trenchant: “Those who do not openly say what the Union is and do not support it till the end and those who pretend to be neutral are hypocritical, not mentioning those who are against and want to profit from the brainwashing practiced in the Soviet period”. What metamorphosis Dorin Chirtoacă experienced after his dropping from the seat of mayor and after the PL’s dropping from the government coalition! To convince ourselves of this, we should only see how cautiously Dorin Chirtoacă addressed the union problem in December 2013, immediately after President Traian Băsescu announced his new country project – the union of the Republic of Moldova and Romania – on November 27, 2013.
This is what Dorin Chirtoacă declared exactly five years ago, on December 3, 2013, in the talk show “Between good and bad” on TVR1 channel: After everything we witnessed during the past 2000 years, the reunification should be the fundamental objective of the Romanian nation in the 21st century as there are no other obstacles.
Five years ago, mayor Dorin Chirtoacă actually spoke about the union ideal as about an objective achievable in the course of the 21st century , not as about an emergency. Meanwhile, the political parties of Moldova stepped up efforts. When President Băsescu announced the country project, there were not many unionist parties in Moldova. In five years, almost 1/3 of the registered parties declare themselves unionist. Why so? Because Dorin Chirtoacă knows the habits of Moldovan politicians and was prophetic in this regard. In an interview for Radio France Internationale (RFI) on November 28, 2013, Chirtoacă said: I think the statement made yesterday (November 27, 2013) by the President was visionary and I considers it is indeed right for the Romanian people, which should regain the dignity lost as a result of World War I, World War II and the Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact and given the injustice done to the Romanian people by the Communist regime... The accomplishment of such a thing now depends on our capacity to persuade the majority on both sides of the Prut so that things could take place in accordance with the new rules we all accepted, with the Constitution, laws and so on”.
If it’s about the Constitution, the amendment of this and the approximation of the laws on the two sides of the Prut mean that the union objective is really one for the whole 21st century. Maybe this is better? Who knows? Indeed, why shouldn’t the president of the PL, together with the party, become involved in the struggle for seats of MP and then in the amendment of the Constitution, etc. so as to achieve the union ideal? This struggle will undoubtedly be up to the last dropping... from the seats of MP. And this struggle could be given by another four generations of members of the PL, up to the eventual victory at the end of the 21st century. But things could happen differently yet and the union could take place ad-hoc, with or without the PL’s involvement, in conditions of force major, as it actually happened in 1918.
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