The main stake in the presidential elections of the candidate supported by the Party of Socialists, Igor Dodon, is to remain President as he sees this post as an element of personal prestige and is ready to do everything for the purpose. He does not want to do something or to change something as his rhetoric in the campaign is very general, Vadim Pistrinciuc, executive director of the Institute for Strategic Policies and Initiatives, stated in IPN’s public debates “Stakes of presidential elections in view of political class and society”.
According to Vadim Pistrinciuc, the Party of Action and Solidarity’s candidate Maia Sandu attracts most of the sympathies. She proved that despite the insufficient possibilities, things can be changed in Moldova too. In the presidential runoffs, Maia Sandu will enjoy the votes of the supporters of other parties, no matter what the message of these parties is.
Renato Usatyi, the candidate of Our Parry, is an experimenter with political language and vocabulary. He tries to use exercises of political expression that are not typical of another politician and this ensures particular connection with some of the categories of people. Renato Usatyi will have a rather high score compared with candidates of other parties of the right.
The candidate of the Party “Dignity and Truth Platform” Andrei Năstase will have an important score, but this will not be sufficient to enable him to ask for the support of those from the right in runoffs. The candidate uses well conservative rhetoric, but what he lacks is an agenda centered on one person. The party appeared as a result of a revolution, a street movement. Its problem is that it didn’t manage to reinvent itself sufficiently swiftly after Vladimir Plahotniuc disappeared from the public life.
The Liberal Democratic Party’s candidate Tudor Deliu focuses on the thorough examination of the President’s duties. “The people expect to see leadership at the upcoming elections,” stated Vadim Pistrinciuc.
According to him, the unionist candidates have a very wide pool of voters, but cannot attract at least half of these. The problem of the unionists is the fact that they use the same methods year after year and these not always produce effects. They also face organizational problems.
No matter who is elected President, this person will have to fight the status quo that steals public funds and does not allow the country to be managed efficiently and will have to face a big wall in the EU whose representatives will ask if Moldova is able to impose at least some minimum impunity, justice and public administration standards, concluded Vadim Pistrinciuc.
The public debate “Stakes of presidential elections in view of political class and society” was the 154th installment of the series “Developing political culture through public debates” that is supported by the Hanns Seidel Foundation.
