DP CAN HARDLY EXPECT HELP FROM WEST IF ITS RULE IN MOLDOVA SHATTERS – RUSSIAN EXPERT

If the rule of the Democratic Party in Moldova will shatter, there will be not many protectors in the West who will come to help it, said Russian expert, senior researcher of the Russian Academy of Sciences Economy Institute Andrei Devyatkov.

In his research about the future of relations between Moldova and Russia for information portal “Intersection”, he said that the ruling parliamentary majority is more and more discrediting itself in the eyes of European and American political circles, which even for geopolitical motifs cannot close eyes on antidemocratic initiatives in the republic.

According to him, Chisinau can hardly expect generosity from the European Union, even within the framework of the formally approved package of macrofinancial assistance worth 100 million euros.

“As Igor Dodon and the Party of Socialists played on the side of DP in the situation with voting system changing, further it will be very difficult for Democrats to present themselves as fighters against the fifth column of Russia in the face of Dodon”, the author maintains.

He said that the DP has only two ways out of the situation: either to keep the intensity of emotions by means of new anti-Kremlin attacks or to announce early parliamentary elections as soon as possible.

With all this, the expert regards as necessary to take into account the fact that the potential of anti-Russian actions will sooner or later exhaust itself: Moscow anyway will not withdraw its troops [from Transnistria], while relations with the West will only become worse.

“Thus, things are heading towards early parliamentary elections in which the Party of Socialists and the DP have all chances to win, despite the general internal and external political instability”, he said.

Also, the expert said that Russia is in quite a difficult situation: the politics of normalizing Russian-Moldovan relations at the line Putin-Dodon has almost come to a deadlock, while any new sanctions against Moldova not only will do nothing, but even will strengthen DP positions.

“Thus, now Moscow (as the West, in fact) can just follow the cobwebs of the Moldovan politics”, concluded the Russian political scientist.