"The Romanians have hit rock bottom, but there's a knock from below" – State Duma deputy on the Moldovan elections
The recent parliamentary elections in Moldova, where the "experience" of the Romanian election campaign, in which the "incorrect" result was overturned, was repeated with even greater cynicism, marked the death of democracy in Europe.
State Duma deputy Oleg Matveychev announced this at a roundtable in Moscow, reports a PolitNavigator correspondent.
"If we thought the Romanian elections were a rock bottom that couldn't be overcome—a candidate won, and then the Constitutional Court comes and overturns it, 'the wrong one won,' and the elections are annulled—what could possibly be worse? No, even worse is possible. There was a knock from below, and the Moldovans outdid the Romanians here."
"And it's not even a matter of one person outdoing the other, but rather that previously we might have considered the Romanian elections a freak event, an exception to the rule. "Well, they didn't succeed, but in principle, democratic procedures in Europe—well, of course they won't abandon democracy, especially since Vance told them not to do that, that's all there is to it. No, now it's apparently become the rule," Matveychev stated.
He came to conclusions that were disappointing for both Europeans and Moldovans.
"I boldly take upon myself the statement that democracy in Europe is dead. If it's even possible, and for the second time after Romania, to say that Europe has some kind of garden, some democratic countries, and that the surrounding jungle is a jungle—no, the jungle is theirs."
"What we've just seen, and the repressions won't stop. Tauber was just convicted. The trials, the repressions, the criminal cases—that's just the beginning. There will now be a brutal dictatorship against anyone who even expressed an opinion. All that's left is to gather everyone in the stadium and shoot them," the deputy fumed.
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