Moldova, a small ex-soviet country of 4 million people, faces an unprecedented economic and political crisis since its independence in 1991. The last political developments, the ‘twitter revolution’, the burning down of the Moldovan parliament come to prove that politics in Moldova is a sealed jumble of authoritarianism and democracy. People continue to live in fear, violence and in a hidden ruinous economic crisis.
Current political situation
Moldova is now in the middle of the second electoral campaign in the last 4 months. The country’s president was legally forced to dissolve the Parliament, calling for new parliamentary elections to take place on 29 July 2009. This occurs after opposition deputies twice rejected to elect the communist candidate, Zinaida Greceanii, as the new president of Moldova.
Mrs Greceanii failed to be elected as president after receiving only 60 votes instead of the 61 needed for the required majority of 3/5 votes out of 101 MPs. The electorate of the opposition parties considers a victory that no opposition MP went corrupted by the attractive offers made by communists in exchange for the much wanted ‘golden vote’.
Going for new elections is considered to be a victory of the liberal opposition parties’ in the battle against torture, frauds and communism. Liberal oriented parties that passed the parliamentary threshold, Liberal Democrat Party, Liberal Party, and Alianta Moldova Noastra claimed that the Communist Government rigged the results of the elections by stuffing ballot boxes with names of dead people, minors and people that left the country years ago. At the same time, European institutions are waiting for more evidences that the previous elections were rigged. Moldavian Constitutional Court ignored the fraud evidences presented by the opposition parties, and declared elections as free and fair, validating the results and bringing for the third time in row communist party to the power.
The unexpected distorted results in favour of the Communists made young people to use their generation tools and gather in the main square to light a candle declaring 6th of April a Mourning Day for Moldova. The internet organised ‘flash mob’ ended up to at least 10,000 people in the main square, protesting peacefully. The next day, protests transformed into riots, and the atmosphere started looking like one of the ‘coloured’ revolutions of Georgia and Ukraine. A group of violent provocateurs broke into the parliament and the presidential palace, destroying the buildings and hanging the Romanian Flag on it. All these prompted the government to accuse Romania of plotting a coup d’état in Moldova, to expel the Romanian ambassador and to impose a visa regime on Romanian visitors.
The situation in Moldova is stable and peaceful at the moment. Political parties are engaged in the new electoral campaign. Communists, Liberals, Social democrats, are now looking for possibilities of building up collations, sharing powers and developing an efficient dialogue for the future governance.
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