{"id":442797,"date":"2016-10-24T20:56:12","date_gmt":"2016-10-24T20:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/?p=442797"},"modified":"2016-10-24T20:56:12","modified_gmt":"2016-10-24T20:56:12","slug":"vlad-spanu-presidentials-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/vlad-spanu-presidentials-interview\/","title":{"rendered":"Vlad Sp\u00e2nu: Citizens of Moldova must judge the Presidential candidates by their actions"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><p>In his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.europalibera.org\/a\/28064755.html\" target=\"_blank\">most recent interview<\/a> for Radio Free Europe, the President of Moldova Foundation and Moldova.ORG founder, Vlad Sp\u00e2nu, calls the Moldovan citizens to judge the Presidential candidates by their past actions, besides usual promises.<\/p>\n<p>According to Sp\u00e2nu, polls show that the people want a fair, intelligent and patriot President. That&#8217;s why the next President should be independent of mafia clans, independent of external influence and should not be participant of the previous governments that were involved in the banking frauds, the concession of the Chi\u0219in\u0103u Airport and the repression of 2009 protests. Still, the former diplomat thinks the President does not have the executive power to balance the powers in the state, but he or she could also be a factor to fight corruption, a tribune for the people and a unifying personality: <em>&#8220;The citizens must be realist, in order to understand what are the competences of the President of the Republic of Moldova, so that the expectations are not too high&#8221;<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Sp\u00e2nu recognizes that the current promises to install meritocracy in the state institutions are highly appreciated by the citizen, who is &#8220;thirsty for normality&#8221;, but, at the same time, recognizes that too many promises and too many candidates confuse the voter. <\/p>\n<p>When asked about the geopolitical preferences of the candidates, the founder of Moldova.ORG answered that the candidates preferring Moscow are likely to be agents of influence of Russia in Moldova:<br \/>\n<em>&#8220;It is a geopolitical interest of the Russian Federation to politically, economically and territorially, like in Transnistria&#8217;s case, control Moldova. Or, as in case of G\u0103g\u0103uzia, to start the inter-ethnic conflict, in a sense to not allow the Republic of Moldova to develop and adhere to the European family within the European Union&#8221;<\/em>. <\/p>\n<p>Sp\u00e2nu thinks a pro-Russian President of Moldova would deceive the West, that invested hope and political and financial capital, and would make the country stagnate in between like Armenia, Georgia and Belarus, compared to the pro-reform, pro-European predisposition in the Baltic countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span>In his most recent interview for Radio Free Europe, the President of Moldova Foundation and Moldova.ORG founder, Vlad Sp\u00e2nu, calls the Moldovan citizens to judge the Presidential candidates by their past actions, besides usual promises. According to Sp\u00e2nu, polls show that the people want a fair, intelligent and patriot President. That&#8217;s why the next President [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":442626,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-442797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinion","category-politics"],"content_social_share":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><p>In his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.europalibera.org\/a\/28064755.html\" target=\"_blank\">most recent interview<\/a> for Radio Free Europe, the President of Moldova Foundation and Moldova.ORG founder, Vlad Sp\u00e2nu, calls the Moldovan citizens to judge the Presidential candidates by their past actions, besides usual promises.<\/p>\n<p>According to Sp\u00e2nu, polls show that the people want a fair, intelligent and patriot President. That&#8217;s why the next President should be independent of mafia clans, independent of external influence and should not be participant of the previous governments that were involved in the banking frauds, the concession of the Chi\u0219in\u0103u Airport and the repression of 2009 protests. Still, the former diplomat thinks the President does not have the executive power to balance the powers in the state, but he or she could also be a factor to fight corruption, a tribune for the people and a unifying personality: <em>&#8220;The citizens must be realist, in order to understand what are the competences of the President of the Republic of Moldova, so that the expectations are not too high&#8221;<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Sp\u00e2nu recognizes that the current promises to install meritocracy in the state institutions are highly appreciated by the citizen, who is &#8220;thirsty for normality&#8221;, but, at the same time, recognizes that too many promises and too many candidates confuse the voter. <\/p>\n<p>When asked about the geopolitical preferences of the candidates, the founder of Moldova.ORG answered that the candidates preferring Moscow are likely to be agents of influence of Russia in Moldova:<br \/>\n<em>&#8220;It is a geopolitical interest of the Russian Federation to politically, economically and territorially, like in Transnistria&#8217;s case, control Moldova. Or, as in case of G\u0103g\u0103uzia, to start the inter-ethnic conflict, in a sense to not allow the Republic of Moldova to develop and adhere to the European family within the European Union&#8221;<\/em>. <\/p>\n<p>Sp\u00e2nu thinks a pro-Russian President of Moldova would deceive the West, that invested hope and political and financial capital, and would make the country stagnate in between like Armenia, Georgia and Belarus, compared to the pro-reform, pro-European predisposition in the Baltic countries.<\/p>\n<div class='heateorSssClear'><\/div><div  class='heateor_sss_sharing_container heateor_sss_horizontal_sharing' data-heateor-sss-href='https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/vlad-spanu-presidentials-interview\/' data-heateor-sss-no-counts=\"1\"><div class='heateor_sss_sharing_title' style=\"font-weight:bold\" ><\/div><div class=\"heateor_sss_sharing_ul\"><a aria-label=\"Facebook\" class=\"heateor_sss_facebook\" 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