​SOCIO-POLITICAL SITUATION IN MOLDOVA IS DEPLORABLE

The socio-political situation in Moldova is in a deplorable state and for overcoming the crisis reforms are urgently necessary. This issue became the topic of discussion during Tuesday’s presentation of the results of the opinion poll on the topic “Socio-political situation in Moldova and possible development trends” in the Moldovan Academy of Sciences (MAS).

Deputy Director of the Institute of Legal and Political Research of MAS Victor Juc stressed that the primary need is in administrative reform, as well as changes in the judicial system, banking sphere and political system.

„We need a program, which would identify the most urgent goals. It is about the rehabilitation of the banking system, negotiations with development partners, unblocking of external assistance for replenishment of state budget and opening of Russian markets for agricultural products”, he said.

According to the scientist, chances for changing the situation will considerably grow in case of creation of a competent Government, which will start implementing reforms.

According to the result of the poll, the most important problems in Moldova are corruption, oligarchization of the political system and inefficient governance. Also, in this list are poverty and migration. With all this, experts said that originators of most of problems are current authorities – 62.8%, though there are those who blame former Communist powers for everything – 25.6%, as well as political influence of the East – 19.2%.

Almost ѕ of the interviewees said that since 2009, pro-European authorities did little and very little for Moldova’s approaching to the EU, while 25% - that they did much.

More than one-third of experts say that the Government is interested in approaching the EU, while 42.9% believe that Moldova is equally indifferent both to the European and the Eurasian unions.

Despite the above-mentioned problems, 64.1% experts do not believe in recurrence of April 7, 2009 events.

Infotag’s dossier: The MAS Institute of Legal and Political Research has conducted the poll in June-July 2015. Among respondents are political scientists, representatives of media, who are writing about the political situation in Moldova, professors in Law, International Relations and Political Scientists, representatives of central and local authorities, as well as civil society.