“OLVIA-PRESS”

MALBROUK GOT READY FOR A MARCH …

THE PEOPLE’S FRONT BEFORE THE AUTUMN OFFENSIVE

The Moldavian national radicals again make us talk about them after a short break. The leader of the Christian-Democrat People’s Party Yury Roshka once again claims his adepts for the ‘National Assembly’. The CDPP (indeed – the People’s Front) aspires to hold it on September 1^st – right after the holiday “Limba noastra” (Our Language – the Romanian language holiday in Moldova – note of the translator)

As ‘Nezavisimaia Moldova’ (The Independent Moldova – Moldovan newspaper – note of the translator) informs, Yury Roshka had already informed the mayor of Kishinev about meetings planned by his party. Everything is planned beforehand. ‘Fellow-travelers’ are involved beforehand, too. According to latest data, today the whole cohort of rightist parties is eager to support the Christian-Democrats. The Social-Democrats of Oazu Nantoi, the Social-Liberals, and Liberals are among them. One of leaders of the Liberal party Anatol Tseranu have already promised to the ruling Communists to make ‘not-seen-before disturbance’, which would far exceed the one that had taken place in Kishinev in winter and spring 2002.

Of course, making such declarations, Roshka and Tseranu base on the political immunity granted by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE). The national-radicals are sure that the PACE would defend them from any actions of the Communist power – just the way it had done this April. That time the frontists not only escaped the trial for their purely hooligan actions but also achieved fulfillment of all their requirements, namely: registration of the Bessarabian Mitropoly, transformation of the state television into a public one, preserving of the school discipline “The history of Romanians”.

Of course, today’s hopes of Roshka and Tseranu for the Council of Europe are to purpose. Nothing has changed for the recent few months. For Europe, it is still advantageous (and will so for a long time) to support the former People’s Front. With its help, the Front limits possibilities of the ruling Communists, corrects the RM foreign policy (in sense of distancing from Russia). Instability, permanently generated by the CDPP, ‘disturbs’ Moldavian economy and contributes to preservation of the country’s dependence on foreign credits.

All this testifies that the nationalism became one of devices of submitting Moldova to the Occident. Those who encourage the national-radicals from outside were and will be interested in their enforcement.

If the Communist party is really patriotic it will not avoid contradictions with the PACE regarding the Christian-Democrats. The Communists are still rather reluctant. Moreover – there are grounds to think that the CPRM is interested in restarting of the frontists’ meetings. The CDPP has already got permission for holding meetings, and got it quite freely, without any bureaucratic obstacles. How could it be? May the Communists be willing to have a favorable pretext for ignoring their electoral promises again?

A.Mospanov,

August 29^th 2002