Régis Genté, you are one of our correspondents in the former USSR. Why this crisis?
This is in fact yet another showdown between the pro-Russian and pro-Western fringes of the country. Knowing that opinion is divided into two relatively equal parts, between pro-Europeans and pro-Europeans. It turns out that Igor Dodon, very Prorusse, and who was elected president in 2016, opposes the appointment of seven ministers proposed by the Prime Minister Pavel Filip, a pro-European that one.
The head of state, which has little power in the Moldovan parliamentary regime, can indeed oppose these appointments, but only once. But as he does not want to give in, the Constitutional Court ruled Tuesday, January 2, to suspend its powers ... temporarily, the time to appoint ministers.
Is it just an opposition between pro-Russian and pro-Europeans?
Basically, yes. Even though there is another dimension behind it. Mr. Dodon invokes, in a very unsupported way, the fact that some of these prospective ministers are involved in a huge banking scandal dating back to 2012-2014, a billion-dollar money laundering case from Russia, a dimension that the Prorusse Dodon tends to erase. But basically, in the internal political game of this country of 3 million and a half inhabitants, Mr. Dodon attacks the omnipotence of Vladimir Plahotniuc, an oligarch who really controls the country.
Be it the government, the judiciary or the Central Bank. And the prime minister is his man.
Who is Mr. Dodon, then?
It is the boss of a socialist party, which has the name at least, and has discovered a propensity Prorussian quite recently, after having been the supporter or even the actor of rapprochement with Europe. Today, he acts as a pawn of Russia. For example, it has recently signed, on its own, a memorandum of cooperation with the Eurasian Economic Union, the great geopolitical project of Mr Putin. It also displays conservatism and proximity to the Orthodox Church, such as the Kremlin.
This is in fact yet another showdown between the pro-Russian and pro-Western fringes of the country. Knowing that opinion is divided into two relatively equal parts, between pro-Europeans and pro-Europeans. It turns out that Igor Dodon, very Prorusse, and who was elected president in 2016, opposes the appointment of seven ministers proposed by the Prime Minister Pavel Filip, a pro-European that one.
The head of state, which has little power in the Moldovan parliamentary regime, can indeed oppose these appointments, but only once. But as he does not want to give in, the Constitutional Court ruled Tuesday, January 2, to suspend its powers ... temporarily, the time to appoint ministers.
Is it just an opposition between pro-Russian and pro-Europeans?
Basically, yes. Even though there is another dimension behind it. Mr. Dodon invokes, in a very unsupported way, the fact that some of these prospective ministers are involved in a huge banking scandal dating back to 2012-2014, a billion-dollar money laundering case from Russia, a dimension that the Prorusse Dodon tends to erase. But basically, in the internal political game of this country of 3 million and a half inhabitants, Mr. Dodon attacks the omnipotence of Vladimir Plahotniuc, an oligarch who really controls the country.
Be it the government, the judiciary or the Central Bank. And the prime minister is his man.
Who is Mr. Dodon, then?
It is the boss of a socialist party, which has the name at least, and has discovered a propensity Prorussian quite recently, after having been the supporter or even the actor of rapprochement with Europe. Today, he acts as a pawn of Russia. For example, it has recently signed, on its own, a memorandum of cooperation with the Eurasian Economic Union, the great geopolitical project of Mr Putin. It also displays conservatism and proximity to the Orthodox Church, such as the Kremlin.
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