PSRM-DP COALITION IS LEAST ADVANTAGEOUS FOR TRANSNISTRIA – EXPERT

A variant, in which the Socialists manage to gain the most advantageous positions in a coalition with the Democrats, will be the least favorable for Transnistria, believes Transnistria’s former deputy minister of foreign affairs Igor Shornikov, current director of the Transnistrian institute of socio-political researches and regional development.

As he stated to the PolitNavigator portal, the Socialists in Chisinau realize that the Transnistrians’ pro-Russia moods make them potential voters for the PSRM, “So, if such a coalition is formed, Igor Dodon and his Party of Socialists will do their utmost to ensure that at the next electoral cycle the polling stations are visited not by 37 thousand Transnistrians, as was last February 24, but by 300 thousand. But this can be achieved only by annexation of Transnistria through a negotiation process”.

Commenting on the possibility of appearance of a PSRM-ACUM coalition, Igor Shornikov said that it would be “a pretty good variant for Transnistria because in this case the differences in the Moldovan political class will only aggravate, so Moldova will get bogged down for years into the solving of its domestic problems”.

“Besides this, the ACUM bloc’s outlooks on Transnistria are very far from the Socialists’ vision, and therefore the appearance of such a coalition will hardly bring complications to Transnistria”, said the Tiraspol expert.

In his words, Transnistria would welcome the variant of a snap election in Moldova because in such case the current status quo in the Transnistrian conflict settlement would last until the beginning of 2020”.