{"id":443211,"date":"2016-12-30T20:01:08","date_gmt":"2016-12-30T20:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/?p=443211"},"modified":"2016-12-30T20:02:55","modified_gmt":"2016-12-30T20:02:55","slug":"first-week-dodon-new-president-moldova-first-7-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/first-week-dodon-new-president-moldova-first-7-days\/","title":{"rendered":"First week of Dodon: What did the new President of Moldova do in his first 7 days?"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading Time: <\/span> 8<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>

Igor Dodon was elected by 834081 people, or 52,11%, as President of Moldova, on November 13th.<\/p>\n

Before his inauguration as President on December 23rd, Igor Dodon promised quite a lot of things in the electoral campaign and in the period between his election and the date of inauguration. Dodon declared he would to take urgent action regarding different (more or less important) problems, including the fight against the “oligarchic regime”<\/em>, once elected:<\/p>\n

–to\u00a0sign decrees on\u00a0investigating<\/a> of the stolen billion and not putting it as state payment, on reestablishing the economical relations with Russia and on combating unionist, anti-state actions;<\/p>\n

-to be “the President\u00a0of those who want closer ties to the EU and those who want closer ties to Russia”<\/em><\/a>;<\/p>\n

–to revoke<\/a> the Moldovan citizenship of Romanian ex-President Traian B\u0103sescu;<\/p>\n

–to repeat the contest<\/a> for the position of Prosecutor General of Moldova and to dismiss the appointed Prosecutor General<\/a>, Eduard Harunjen;<\/p>\n

–to block some<\/a> \u201cantisocial\u201d reforms of the current government, the reform of the pensioning system, including the raise of pensioning age and the opening of a NATO office.<\/p>\n

Dodon previously accused<\/a> his former counter-candidate, Maia Sandu, for blocking his inauguration and preventing him from entering the job by submitting complaints on the electoral frauds to the Central Electoral Commission and the Constitutional Court.<\/p>\n

Now, since Dodon is President by himself, let’s see how did President Igor Dodon fulfill his promises of “urgent actions” by looking at his actions in the first week of his Presidential mandate.<\/p>\n

Parliament speaker Andrian Candu, President Igor Dodon and PM Pavel Filip on December 23rd<\/p><\/div>\n

-On December 23rd, Igor Dodon was inaugurated<\/a> as President of the Republic of Moldova. The ceremony took place at the Palace of the Republic in the center of Chi\u0219in\u0103u. Dodon took oath of office, but not before holding a speech, supposed to be a “unity speech” in front of his supporters and counter-protesters.<\/p>\n

Right after his inauguration, Dodon had several meetings<\/a> with different visiting officials, like the Deputy Prime-Minister of Belarus Mihail Rusyi, head of the French National Front in the European Parliament Eduard Ferrand, Deputy Foreign Minister of Armenia, Shavarsh Kocharyan, but also some priests from Athos mountain Orthodox\u00a0monastery and the Russian artist Gennady Hazanov<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Dodon beside his former Socialist deputies and Gagauzia leader Irina Vlah, at the meeting with Belarus Deputy PM Rusyi<\/p><\/div>\n

The night after his inauguration, Moldova President Igor Dodon had a meeting<\/a> with the Russia Deputy Prime-Minister, Dmitry Rogozin, at Chi\u0219in\u0103u at the Presidential residency at 3AM on 24 of December.<\/p>\n

Dodon and Rogozin after a meeting at 4AM<\/p><\/div>\n

Dodon and Rogozin discussed the current state of the bilateral relations and the perspectives of the Transnistrian conflict settlement. The parties also planned the future topics of discussion at the next meeting of Dodon with Russia President Vladimir Putin. They scheduled\u00a0the meeting between Dodon and Putin for 17 December 2017.<\/p>\n

-On Saturday, December 24th, Dodon\u2019s Presidential staff did a\u00a0controversial change to the website of the institution by replacing the sign \u201cRO\u201d, corresponding to Romanian language, to \u201cMD\u201d, probably the \u201cMoldovan language\u201d mentioned by Dodon in his CV.<\/p>\n

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Before December 24th:<\/p>\n

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On the same Saturday, Dodon called some Orthodox priests to “baptise” his new workplace.<\/p>\n

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-On December 25th, Dodon wished Merry Christmas to the citizens of Moldova who celebrate it according to the “new style”, at the same time stressing the importance of mutual understanding despite “different opinions, holidays and values”<\/em>.<\/p>\n