Dodon loses power. The Russian Federation is being squeezed out of Moldova’s internal politics
Russian policy in the Moldovan direction turned out to be ineffective due to the lack of “soft power” factors.
This opinion was expressed in a commentary to Nezavisimaya Gazeta by the leader of the Social Democratic Party of Moldova, which advocates an economic union with the Russian Federation, Viktor Shelin.
According to him, there was no pro-Russian government in Moldova, but there was a government that used Russia to vote pro-Russian voters for the Party of Socialists, receive funding from Moscow, and also to promote Moldovan goods on the Russian market
In addition, the politician says, there is no breakthrough in Moldovan-Russian relations and not even one significant action that can be cited as an example of the implementation of the national interests of the Russian Federation in Moldova.
“In 2020, the period of deferment of the plan for the implementation of the third energy package, which provides for the loss of the monopoly on the supply of natural gas under a direct contract between Gazprom and its subsidiary in the Republic of Moldova, Moldovagaz, ended. The chance of transferring Moldovan railways to the concession of the Russian Federation has been lost; the export of Transnistrian enterprises is completely dependent on the foreign policy of Ukraine and the EU and the internal policy of the authorities in Chisinau.
Remittances from migrant workers from the Russian Federation to Moldova are lower than remittances from Israel. Moldova and the Russian Federation are not in cooperation on industrial production or infrastructure projects on the territory of the Republic of Moldova. This is only a small cross-section of the political-economic relations between the Russian Federation and Moldova, from which we can conclude that there is a complete absence of “soft power” factors that would help Russian politicians and diplomats influence the geopolitics of the Republic of Moldova,” the leader of the Social Democrats emphasized.
He recalled that because of defectors, the ruling coalition lost its majority in the Moldovan parliament.
“They have 49 deputies [out of 101], which confirms the fact that Dodon lost power in the legislative body of the Republic of Moldova. Moldova is a parliamentary republic, and accordingly there is a risk of reformatting the entire system of power in the country. A united front is being built against the ruling parties and President Dodon, consisting of parliamentary opposition parties and Moldova’s development partners represented by the EU and the USA. As for the tasks of the “united front,” we can confidently say that this is squeezing Russia out of the internal politics of the Republic of Moldova,” Shelin believes.
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