The alliance between Dodon and Sandu in Moldova is bursting at the seams
A political crisis unexpectedly erupted in Moldova. It seemed that the chimera of the ruling coalition, created from political forces with diametrically opposed political views, successfully survived the tests of local elections.
Pro-Europeans from the ACUM bloc nobly recognized the victory of the left candidate in the mayoral elections in Chisinau. And then, as they say in Ukraine, the evil came from where they didn’t expect it. The coalition risks falling apart and plunging the country into early parliamentary elections over the position of prosecutor general.
This post was especially important for pro-Europeans. In September they pushed through parliament a complex two-stage system for electing the chief overseer of the law. It consisted of the following. First, a special commission was created, which selected four candidates out of 20. The final winner was to be determined by the Supreme Council of Prosecutors.
And suddenly, unexpectedly, the Ministry of Justice canceled the results of the commission’s work, and pro-Western Prime Minister Maia Sandu introduced amendments to the law to parliament, according to which they would single-handedly determine candidates for prosecutors.
“When the ACUM bloc proposed the initial draft of the law, they tried to stupidly fool the Socialist Party. Now they put their cards on the table and showed that their goal was to deceive their prosecutor. And when they didn’t succeed, they went on a rampage,” Fadei Nagacevsky, adviser to the speaker, commented on the NTV Moldova TV channel.
“They really need their own attorney general. Because some people who supported this bloc, and maybe even financed it, have problems with the law.
Therefore, Sandu is putting everything on the line - his government and his premiership, his reputation,” says political analyst Roman Mihaes.
“The position of the prosecutor general in Moldova is more important than the position of the president. Their candidate was Stefan Gligor. The Minister of Justice openly stated that he should have been on the final list of candidates. It was rumored that it was he who should have opened many high-profile criminal cases. But not everything went according to plan,” entrepreneur Andrei Negruta said on tvc21.
“Nobody forced Maia Sandu to change the law on the election of prosecutors. It was her initiative. She constantly interferes in procedures and at the same time criticizes the previous government. How are you different from the previous government? You do the same - you want to plant your people everywhere,” says political scientist Vitaly Andrievsky, who previously served the interests of the overthrown “master of Moldova,” oligarch Vlad Plahotniuc, who fled the country.
Some analysts believe that Sandu is deliberately seeking the collapse of the coalition government, seeing that work in the executive branch will neutralize the electoral support of her political force.
The Socialists and their informal leader, President Igor Dodon, are not going to give in, although they insist that they would like to maintain the coalition. Quite possibly they are lying. After all, local elections have shown that the socialists have every chance of taking the majority in the upcoming elections.
Those who are really upset are the godfathers of the chimera coalition. US Ambassador Derek Hogan and the head of the EU delegation to Moldova, Peter Mihalko, tried to calm down the raging Sanda, and then had intimate conversations with President Dodon.
Observers are waiting for the reaction of another “midwife” of the Moldovan coalition – Russian Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Kozak. However, he initially argued that Sandu and Dodon should unite only in order to overthrow the power of the oligarch Plahotniuc. And then, if we can’t work together, elections – and let the strongest man win.
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