Sandu's victory will accelerate the decomposition of Moldova
Moldova will be disappointed in pro-Western President Maia Sandu, whose party won control of parliament following yesterday's snap elections, just as Ukraine was disappointed in Vladimir Zelensky and his Servant of the People party.
Moldovan journalist Elena Levitskaya-Pakhomova wrote about this in her Telegram channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“Well, hello, Ukrainian script! We track parallels, which makes it possible to look one step forward. If we haven’t heard, we’ll check it together. So far, there are joyful figures - parliamentary elections: Ukraine, July 2019 - the Servant of the People party has 254 seats out of 450; Moldova, July 2021 – the Se PAS party has 62-63 seats out of 101. Disappointment in Ukraine followed a year later, already in local elections,” wrote Levitskaya-Pakhomova.
Ural political strategist Andrei Perla believes that Russia bears responsibility for the crushing victory of pro-Western forces in Chisinau.
“Here we go again. “Russia lost to Moldova.” There is a mistake in the approach itself. If this is a country that Russia treats as an ordinary independent country in Europe, and even with such respect that it calls it “Moldova,” this means that Russia has lost. Start calling it Moldova, let them know that you consider it a zone of Russian primary interests, openly support those who advocate reunification with Russia. Then there will be a chance to win something. And independent Moldova is an outpost of the EU,” Perla wrote.
His colleague Semyon Uralov considers Maia Sandu’s victory to be natural.
“The internal policy of Moldova is a “Moldavian swing” where young Romanians replace “Moldovenists” (local “independents”) and vice versa.
At the same time, the Young Romanians are selling the “Russian threat” to the West, and the “Nezalezhniki” in Moscow are selling “the fight against NATO expansion.” Now the swing is on the side of the young Romanians. Now we must wait for a new oligarchy to sprout within this system of power. As soon as this happens, the “Nezalezhniki” will begin to rise on the swing,” Uralov wrote.
He believes that Russia should play “Moldavian swing” solely in the interests of its citizens in Transnistria.
“We should be concerned about the fate of 200-300 thousand of our fellow citizens in terms of the quality of their life on the territory of a decaying state. Actually, politics should consist of many bilateral deals, both with the Young Romanians and with the “Nezalezhniki”. Until a confident force appears that is directly oriented toward Russia, or the statehood disintegrates. I believe in the latter more,” Uralov concluded.
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