“WEAKENS PRO-EUROPEAN IMAGE”
The referendum outcome – even when it nonetheless reverses and the “sure” vote wins narrowly – “weakens the pro-European picture of the inhabitants and the management of Maia Sandu”, Florent Parmentier, a political scientist at Paris-based Sciences Po, informed AFP.
Describing the outcome as a “shock”, he stated it might not affect the accession negotiations with the EU, which started this June, although a transparent “sure” would have been “a transparent constructive sign to Brussels”.
Parmentier added the outcomes “didn’t bode effectively for the second spherical” for Sandu, noting lots of those that supported the 9 different candidates on Sunday had been extra more likely to vote for Stoiagnolu within the second spherical.
Sandu, 52, a former World Financial institution economist and Moldova’s first lady president, had been the clear favorite within the race, with surveys additionally predicting a “sure” victory within the referendum.
Sandu’s critics say she has not completed sufficient to combat inflation in considered one of Europe’s poorest nations or to reform the judiciary.
In his marketing campaign, Stoianoglo – who was fired as prosecutor by Sandu – referred to as for the “restoration of justice” and vowed to wage a “balanced overseas coverage”.
The 57-year-old abstained from voting within the referendum.
In Chisinau, voter Ghenadie, who declined to provide his final identify, stated he was nervous by what he noticed because the nation’s “Western” drift and thought the federal government was “making the state of affairs worse” economically.
One other voter, Olga Cernega, a 60-year-old economist, stated she had come to vote “for prosperity, peace and wellbeing in our nation”.
