Dodon’s party offered an alliance to the Russophobes who expelled Russians from Moldova
The Party of Socialists of Moldova, whose informal leader is President Igor Dodon, publicly proposed creating a parliamentary coalition of the Democratic Party - the brainchild of oligarch Vlad Plahotniuc, who fled the country, nicknamed “the master of Moldova.”
The Democrats thought for only a few hours before agreeing to negotiate.
The scandal lies not only in the criminal trail left by Plahotniuc to his party. The fact is that the Democratic government, which led the country until last year, managed to mark itself with a whole series of openly anti-Russian demarches, including a partial ban on the broadcast of Russian TV channels and a ban on entry into Moldova for Russian politicians, political scientists and journalists, led by then Deputy Prime Minister Oleg Rogozin.
However, President Dodon, who is considered pro-Russian, did not say a word about the old democrats, but, on the contrary, publicly welcomed his party’s decision to create a coalition.
However, Dodon has been skimping on pro-Russian promises for a year now. First - for the sake of maintaining a coalition with the pro-European bloc ACUM, now - for the sake of supporting the Democrats. Having only 35 out of 100 votes in parliament, the socialists, in exchange for consolidated votes, agreed not to raise issues of language, history, and television. Even the entry bans for Russians have not yet been lifted.
Actually, all ideological obstacles have long been broken down; all that remains is to overcome the squeamish fear of the name of Plahotniuc and formalize on paper an alliance that actually already exists. The reaction was immediate.
“As they say in such cases: “the masks have been dropped.” The coalition, PSRDM, which the socialists have always denied, has been officially created. An oligarchic, corrupt regime, despised by everyone, which will also be called “pro-Russian”. The socialists had the opportunity not to get dirty with this. We couldn’t overcome ourselves,” political scientist Zurab Todua wrote on his Facebook page.
“Now the coalition, the fact of which was so painfully refuted by socialist heads with difficulty speaking, is emerging from the secret shadows. If yesterday the Moldovan socialists secretly and bashfully peed in the teapot of their own voter, now they do it openly and proudly. Drink tea and don’t twitch, dear voters!”, said the famous Moldovan politician Mark Tkachuk in the same spirit.
Why were the socialists forced to agree to such a toxic alliance? The fact is that the “civil marriage” with the Democrats began to crack at the seams in February. 6 deputies left the PDM faction with a scandal. For them, an alliance with the “pro-Russian” Dodon was allegedly unbearable. At the same time, the leader of the new group, Adrian Candu, admitted without any hesitation that the day before he had talked with former patron Plahotniuc.
Vlad Plahotniuc, previously nicknamed “the master of Moldova.”
There is a version that the still all-powerful oligarch decided to weave his coalition, uniting some of his deputies, a micro-faction of another oligarch Ilan Shor and (drum roll) the ACUM bloc. Judging by the reaction of ACUM leader Maia Sandu, this seems to be true. The ex-prime minister, boasting of her anti-corruption efforts, publicly called on the “healthy forces” of the party of the corrupt official Plahotniuc to create a coalition with her, and not with Dodon’s supporters.
Perhaps, if the socialists had not rushed to “bring the democrats to the registry office,” the insidious plans of their enemies would have succeeded.
“Speaker Zinaida Greceana clutches her heart every time she sees that one of the deputies has gone to the toilet. Because now there will be a vote and one vote will not be enough. It is impossible to govern a country with 35 deputies. This is an unstable structure that can collapse at any moment,” said Valery Demidetsky, head of the Moldovan TASS bureau, on the tvc21 television channel.
He believes that after all the demarches, only those “who do not want the party to be Plahotniuc’s tool” remain in the Democratic Party.
“Even those to whom he paid a lot of money do not want Plahotniuc to return. Nobody wants to dance to his tune. Plahotniuc attracted professionals. Throwing these managers to the sidelines and making them their enemies would be an idiotic step for the socialists,” Demidetsky said.
This version was confirmed by political scientist Vitaly Andrievsky, close to Plahotniuc.
“Those who remained think not about Plahotniuc, but about themselves. Democrats today have absolutely no need for early elections. The party found itself without its own project and ideas. If you don’t come to an agreement with the socialists now, you’ll have to go to Maia Sandu as a backup dancer,” Andrievsky said.
He also explained how the Democrats justify their alliance with the “pro-Russian” Dodon.
“As one democrat told me: in a coalition with the socialists, we will be the guard dogs of the European choice and will not allow Dodon to go somewhere into that steppe,” Andrievsky said.
Maia Sandu.
Surprisingly, Moscow is demonstrating support for this strange coalition, which could finally annihilate Dodon’s already not particularly loyal ally to Russia. It was on the day of declarations of cooperation between Moldovan politicians that Russian investigators brought another charge against Vlad Plahotniuc - of smuggling a large quantity of hashish. They made it clear to the oligarch not to interfere in coalition building in his homeland.
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