“The people want to be heard, not ignored in the upcoming elections, when a false agenda is imposed on them, and this is their stake. I don’t think the stake promoted by Igor Dodon can help the country overcome the current situation. The social contract between people and institutions is not promoted and this will lead to migration when borders are opened,” Vadim Pistrinciuc, executive director of the Institute for Strategic Policies and Initiatives, said IPN’s public debate “Stakes of presidential elections in view of political class and society”.
“On the one hand, the people’s poverty, lack of jobs and drought exert pressure. On the other hand, there is the lie at state level by which the people are told that corruption does not exist and schemes do not exist. There has been no decency even during the crisis period. Any entrepreneur got tired of bureaucracy,” stated Vadim Pistrinciuc.
According to him, deviance is now openly promoted by the authorities for the first time. “The politicians, especially those that are in power, speak in terms that are not understood by the people. The people want the institutions to be cleaned. A President is needed to ardently fight delinquency that ends state life, within his powers. Corruption becomes a state management system. The biggest stake is to hear politicians speaking about my problems.”
In another development, Vadim Pistrinciuc said all the parties that contend in the presidential elections want to win the elections, with the stake being the power. A category of parties that know they do not have very big chances of winning look at the electoral exercise as at an exercise for strengthening the party. “Paradoxically, the party of President Igor Dodon, even if this is a party of the left, should have had a rather ambitious social agenda. However, as it is a party with controlling interest in the government, it pleads fore for a status quo that they translate as stability. We can read between the lines that it is better so than worse.”
Vadim Pistrinciuc noted the method by which President Igor Dodon tries to very attentively select the words when he speaks about phenomena of which the people are tied, such as poverty and unemployment, shows that he wants to detach himself from governance, but also tries to be the defender of those who have been challenged for over a year.
Vadim Pistrinciuc also said that he noticed very risky moves for Igor Dodon’s image as a candidate, namely the promotion of discredited figures in the judicial system. He also kept complicity silence when there were rather difficult situations involving players that took part in the banking fraud or money laundering schemes. This derives from the mistake made by Igor Dodon and his party when they extended the cooperation with the PDM and Vladimir Plahotniuc when these were in power. The coalition with the MPs of this party forms part of the same mistake as they knew it was risky to bank on their support.
The right is on the other side, with Maia Sandu being the favorite. Her message of profound change is based on the elimination of the elites that have been trying to rob this state for decades. She also tries to use the social problems that appeared as a result of the pandemic. The unionist candidates and the PPPDA promote the message of change, but a more conservative one, according to 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.
