Live Breaking News & Updates on Western Oriented Party

Moldova’s Parliamentary Elections May Produce a Sea Change (Part Two)
Publication: Eurasia Daily Monitor Volume: 18 Issue: 109
The Electoral Bloc of Communists and Socialists (BECS) would probably nominate Igor Dodon (Moldova’s president in 2016–2020) as the next prime minister, if BECS wins the snap parliamentary elections, scheduled to take place on Sunday, July 11. Dodon’s Socialist Party has taken on board former president (2001–2009) Vladimir Voronin with his moribund Communist Party, which could not hope to pass the threshold on its own. Dodon had left the Communist Party in 2011, carried most of its electorate with him into the Socialist Party, and has been denounced as “traitor” and worse by Voronin in the last ten years. Nevertheless, Dodon invited Voronin’s Communists into this bloc, yielding to Voronin’s conditions (e.g., the first spot on the ticket), in return for the few residual Communist votes. This move reflects the Socialists’ fear of ....

United States , Sakha Yakutiya , Vladimir Voronin , Vladimir Plahotniuc , Renato Usatii , Ilan Shor , Eurasian Economic Union , Dodon Socialists Ziarul National , Ziarul National , Party Of Action , Atlantic Treaty Organization , Dodon Socialist Party , Moldova Association Agreement , Igor Dodon Socialist Party , European Union , Shor Party , Electoral Bloc , Igor Dodon , Socialist Party , Communist Party , Maia Sandu , Part One , North Atlantic Treaty Organization , Association Agreement , Moscow Led Eurasian Economic Union , Western Oriented Party ,