16.06.2022, Kishinyov.
Moldavia is in a very profound political, energetic, economic, and social crisis. After a year and half of Maia Sandu’s presidency, the government and the parliament have dramatically worsened the situation in the country. The Moldavian authorities began to violate basic principles of democracy, to persecute opposition activists and journalists.
The most striking examples are the imposed censorship in the media, the illegitimate suspension of Prosecutor General Aleksandr Stoianoglo, and the detention and arrest of the ex-president of Moldavia Igor Dodon accused of passive corruption, unlawful enrichment, high treason, and funding of a political party as a criminal organization.
From early spring, the opposition began to organize small but regular protest actions in various regions of Moldavia, urging the authorities to decisive steps to strengthen the economy and improve the standards of living. On May 24, the authorities gave the left-wing opposition a perfect reason to intensify and escalate its street activities, as the leader of the Party of Socialists Igor Dodon was detained and later taken under house arrest.
A process of political struggle began in Moldavia, in which the left-wing opposition wanted to achieve an early parliamentary election as a minimum, or the re-election of both the parliament and the president as a maximum. Whether an early parliamentary election would help the opposition is questionable. However, it is a fact that it lacks unity, as the protest actions have revealed a split, and there is no coordination inside the opposition in their struggle against Sandu.
Everyone saw how the Party of Socialists led by Igor Dodon held a long chain of rallies and pickets without any support from their opposition colleagues. The protest actions the socialists held were ignored by their main allies, the communists. In its turn, the Party of Communists led by Vladimir Voronin cooperated with the Șor party to hold protest actions, which were similarly ignored by the socialists. The left-wing Civic Congress party just stepped aside, and now it is watching, not without inner malevolence, the faltering protest activities of the socialists and the communists.
The right-wing and centrist opposition also keeps away from the socialists’ street actions. To date, action and unity were demonstrated among the leaders of public opinion, i.e. journalists, political scientists, and patriotic circles, which join their efforts in the protests, in contrast to the opposition parties.
In the public talks and publications, most of the leaders of the parliamentary and non-parliamentary opposition call for a united front to struggle against the authorities and for protest actions free from any party attributes. At the same time, some of them humbly propose themselves as leaders of the protest movement and as those who can bear the burden of the organization’s activities. Thus they split rather than consolidate the opposition.
Without any loss of time, taking advantage of the opponents’ weakness, President of Moldavia Maia Sandu and her team maintain pressure on the opposition, disposing of them one by one. At the same time, the authorities strengthen their ranks, and they split the ranks of their opponents. For example, the competition, if it can be called so, for the position of the chief prosecutor of the anti-corruption prosecutor’s office of Moldavia was won by a Moldavian-born US national, graduate of the Cambridge University Veronica Dragalin, whose mother is a major sponsor of President Sandu’s Party of Action and Solidarity.
On June 9, the security services arrested a journalist, the editor of the GagauzNews information portal Nikolay Kostrykin. He is accused of making public statements in support of Russia’s special operation in Ukraine, while in fact he called things for what they are. The Russian media are also persecuted, like the team of Sputnik Moldavia, which was just dissolved in 24 hours; NTV Moldavia and RTR Moldavia are regularly punished with huge fines for broadcasting a position that is different from the official one.
Relations between different political forces are always complicated but is it really a good moment now for another spiral of the political conflict between the leaders of the left-wing opposition when it is not the mandates in the parliament, but whether Moldavia will be or not is at stake? The left-wing is not only separated and unable to create even a situational alliance against Sandu’s authorities, but they also completely ignore in their media the actions of their left-wing colleagues. In contrast, the Sandu team, which was raised by the old man Soros, successfully avoids this even when internal conflicts arise.
If the left-wing activists fail to unite, then Sandu will first dispose of Dodon and then of the weakened Party of Communists; the rest will quickly leave the country’s politics themselves to scarcely support each other in timid posts on the Internet.
Source: Rossa Primavera News Agency
