In the parliamentary elections held in Moldova, the ruling Movement and Solidarity Party, associated with President Maia Sandu, won 50 percent of the votes, maintaining the parliamentary majority.
The Movement and Solidarity Party will hold 55 seats in the 101-member parliament and will form the new government alone.
In a statement to Medianews.az regarding the matter, political analyst Shahin Jafarli said that the Patriotic Electoral Bloc of Socialists and Communists, led by the Kremlin-backed former presidents Voronin and Dodon, as well as former leader of the Gagauz Irina Vlah, did not fulfill the hopes placed on it by the Kremlin, collecting only 24 percent of the vote: “These results are undoubtedly Maia Sandu’s victory over aggressive Russian imperialism. This delicate and simple woman has managed in recent years, especially after the war started in neighboring Ukraine, to withstand Russia’s relentless pressure, hybrid warfare tactics, and to thwart all provocations.
What were these pressures and provocations? Energy blackmail, traditional Dniester and Gagauz separatism, organizing continuous protest actions under the pretext of socio-economic hardships and attempts to create chaos in the country, networks set up through businessman and politician Ilan Shor—also backed by Israel, who is known as the bank thief responsible for the famous $1 billion theft—to buy voters with money, sending sabotage groups trained in Serbia to Moldova…”
According to Shahin Jafarli, European leaders, after repeatedly failing to act, finally found the strength to get out of their chairs and support Maia Sandu: “Because the Moldova issue had become a factor affecting Europe's security.
If Russia's people had returned to power, a new front could have opened from Moldovan territory against Ukraine—especially in the strategically significant direction of Odessa.
The European Union leadership, as well as the leaders of France and Germany, who visited Moldova twice before the election, gave clear and unequivocal messages that Moldova will be admitted to the European Union. The population saw that the European vision presented by Sandu is not an illusory perspective but a reality. As a result, the people supported those who promised to lead the country to a bright future, not those who wanted to return it to the darkness of the past.”
Shahin Jafarli also considers it important to highlight the role of the Moldovan diaspora: “Moldovans living and working in Europe, once again, took ownership of their country and significantly influenced the election outcome. Without the diaspora's votes, even if the Movement and Solidarity Party ranked first within the country, it would not have been able to secure a majority in parliament.
Maia Sandu's priority tasks in the new term will be to successfully complete state-building and EU integration (before Sandu, Moldovan statehood was merely on paper); achieve full energy independence; eradicate poverty; and try to end Dniester and Gagauz separatism.”
Naile Gasimova,
Medianews.az
