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INDEPENDENT SCIENTIST OFFERS HIS ALGORITHM OF OVERCOMING POLITICAL CRISIS…
Chisinau. Independent political scientist Eduard Volkov presumes that what Moldova has been suffering last several months is not a constitutional crisis, but a deep political crisis. To overcome it, he has worked out an algorithm.
Volkov convened a news conference in Infotag today to present his vision of the situation and to make public his ideas. In particular, he suggested that parliamentary party leaders should convened at the negotiating table and work out amendments to Article 78 of the Constitution – on electing president.
Eduard Volkov proposes to hold presidential elections in 4 rounds. At the first round, the head of state is elected by 61 votes of the 101-member Parliament of Moldova. In case of a failure, at the second round the necessary minimum of ballots should be lowered to 57, at the 3rd round – to 55 votes, and at the 4th round – 52.
Upon discussion in parliamentary factions and in case of approval, the bill on amending the presidential election procedure is sent to the Constitutional Court, and the Parliament imposes a 6-month moratorium on passing the bill. Upon approval of the constitutional amendments concerned, the Parliament is dissolved, and an early parliamentary election is organized.
Volkov regards his proposal as a “compromise variant”, and stands against electing president by the whole nation.
He also believes the electoral barrier for parties should be lowered to 2%, “for in such case we will achieve a wider political diversity in the legislative forum, and small parties will give up seeking a destabilization in the country only because they feel offended over their failure to get to parliament”.
The political scientist believes it was irrelevant and extremely untimely to form a commission for studying and assessing the totalitarian Communist regime in Moldova. He presumes the commission will hardly ever achieve any fruit, “but by merely issuing a Presidential Decree on establishing the commission, Mihai Ghimpu is continuing to split the civil society in Moldova”.
Volkov regards the April 7, 2009 events in Chisinau as “a coup attempted by some third forces… What happened last April may well repeat in the future. Moldova will remain endangered as long as the local political elite continues to have politicians standing against its statehood”.
