The tactical-strategic move made by the PDM, which announced that it decided to abandon the geopolitical aspects and will become a pro-Moldova party, has economic and political consequences for the Republic of Moldova, political analyst of the Institute for Development and Social Initiative “Viitorul” Ion Tăbârță was quoted by IPN as saying in the program “15 minutes of economic realism”.
The analyst said that by this abandonment, the PDM admits two failures – that the relationship with the EU is deficient and that it failed to occupy the political right. The leader of the PDM spoke nothing about the scraping of the relationship with the EU, but, judging by the announcement that it becomes a pro-Moldova party, the PDM further needs the EU.
The expert noted that the PDM no longer tends to occupy the right and returns to the centrist origins. The party aims to touch everything it’s possible. By such a move, it paves the way for particular post-electoral coalitions with the PSRM and principally with the Shor Party, which will become a kind of “Joker” for the future political cycle. Now the PDM plays an important role in harassing the opposition and later will play an important role in particular post-electoral calculations.
According to Ion Tăbârță, the PDM will not fully abandon the pro-European electoral segments and will further try to maximally weaken the pro-European extraparliamentary opposition parties. Before the election campaign, the PDM tells us that politically the Republic of Moldova renounces the relationship with the EU, but at economic level needs the Association Agreement and the visa free regime. When saying that it will modernize the Republic of Moldova, the party refers to the relations with the Western partners.
The expert also said that the Republic of Moldova does not have a clear development course and is taking measures to develop the relations with countries of other geographical areas, such as Turkey. Paradoxically, earlier the rhetoric of the PSRM and the PDM about the EU and Russia was different, but now they speak similarly about the relationship with Turkey. “After the parliamentary elections of February 2019, the political picture of the Republic of Moldova will become clearer. We will know if the relations with the EU will be retuned or we will witness the vectorial isolation announced by the current ruling party,” stated Ion Tăbârţă.
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