{"id":444069,"date":"2017-07-03T20:23:50","date_gmt":"2017-07-03T20:23:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/?p=444069"},"modified":"2017-07-03T20:23:50","modified_gmt":"2017-07-03T20:23:50","slug":"moldovan-president-igor-dodons-hopes-becoming-dictator-partys-authoritarian-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/moldovan-president-igor-dodons-hopes-becoming-dictator-partys-authoritarian-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Moldovan President Igor Dodon&#8217;s Hopes of Becoming a Dictator and His Party&#8217;s Authoritarian Program"},"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\"> 3<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><p><em>This opinion piece was written by\u00a0Dr. Ionas Aurelian Rus, Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Cincinnati Blue Ash College (USA). The opinion does not necessarily represent the opinion of the editorial staff of Moldova.org.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, the Moldovan press and the American and European press in general have not paid attention to an article in an American publication, The Daily Beast, written by the Russian journalist Anna Nemtsova, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/articles\/2016\/10\/29\/igor-dodon-is-vladimir-putin-s-moldovan-mini-me.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;Igor Dodon is Vladimir Putin&#8217;s Moldovan Mini-Me&#8221;<\/a>.\u00a0In this article, the presidential candidate at that time, who is the current president of the Republic of Moldova, Igor Dodon, was quoted as saying in an interview for the above-mentioned publication that he wants to be &#8220;A dictatorial leader, the same as Putin.\u201d \u201cThe only difference between me and Putin right now,\u201d he said, \u201cis that I am not the president, yet, as soon as I become one in a few days, I will run Moldova just the same way Putin runs Russia, I assure you.\u201d According to Anna Nemtsova, &#8216;But firmly, Dodon added, \u201cIn the current anarchy that we see around, Moldova immediately needs an iron fist, a strong vertical of power.\u201d The fact that the Socialists are only a minority in the Moldovan parliament, and the fact that the Moldovan cabinet is officially pro-European Union explains why Dodon will not be able to implement his plans before the 2018 parliamentary elections. &#8216;<br \/>\nIf the party whose official leader Dodon was and whose unofficial leader he still is, the left-wing populist, pro-Russian Party of Socialists of the Republic of Moldova will win a majority of the seats in the 2018 elections, Moldova will head in an authoritarian direction. A careful analysis of the <a href=\"http:\/\/socialistii.md\/despre-partid\/programul-psrm\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">program of the party<\/a>, written before Dodon became president at the end of 2016, shows this. Interestingly enough, Dodon won the second round of the presidential elections on November 13, 2016 with 52.11% of votes after a campaign full of lies and calumnies against former Minister of Education Maia Sandu. The party wants to prohibit sex education as well as teaching in schools and universities from a national(ist) point of view. The Socialists do not believe in academic freedom and can not tolerate the criticism of Russian imperialism. The Socialists are advocating that the mass media institutions, including, of course, the opposition ones, should &#8220;benefit&#8221; from a citizens&#8217; council that guarantees their &#8220;morality&#8221; (i.e. censorship). The West is presented in the party&#8217;s program as imperialist and corrupt, while Russia is presented in a positive light, as is, in general, the former Soviet Union. Naturally, the expropriation of some companies is threatened. The program promises a welfare state like in Belarus, not anything similar to what may be found in the European Union. The party openly declares that it is in favor of the &#8220;principles of democratic centralism&#8221;, just like the old Communist Party of the Soviet Union. This program with authoritarian tendencies of the party is necessary, but not sufficient, to facilitate Dodon&#8217;s plans, discussed above, to become the dictator of the Republic of Moldova.<br \/>\nWhile Dodon&#8217;s supporters did engage in electoral fraud during the two rounds of the presidential elections of October 30 and November 13, 2016, it can not be proven that Maia Sandu won the election, and Dodon&#8217;s popularity has not decreased. The electoral fraud during the elections of 2016 was probably at most only 2-3% of the votes, and is likely to be in the same range in the parliamentary elections of 2018. The long-term danger is not so much electoral fraud, but the Socialists&#8217; schemes for the federalization of Moldova. According to their publicly available plan, the Senate will represent the three units of the federation, Moldova, the overwhelmingly ethnically Gagauz autonomous Gagauz-Yeri and currently secessionist Transnistria, which has a Russophone majority and a Russian ethnic plurality. The latter two units are overwhelmingly not only pro-Russian, but also pro-Russian imperialism. Since the cabinet and the composition of the Constitutional Court and of the Supreme Court will be approved by this Senate, which is designed to have a pro-Russian, Homo Sovieticus, large majority, the will of a potentially anti-Dodon, anti-Russian majority (even large majority) of the population could be contained and ignored on issues related to the executive and the judiciary.<br \/>\nThe U.S. and European Union should indicate clearly, in a way that does not present corruption in Moldova as a worse danger than dictatorship, that Dodon, who opposes Moldova&#8217;s European Union membership and its association agreement with the European Union, and publicly argues that the European Union should disappear, is not &#8220;another democratic choice&#8221;. It should not, however, treat every single Socialist as an advocate of dictatorship. It should still talk to the party&#8217;s official leader, Zinaida Greceanii, Moldova&#8217;s potential prime minister.<\/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\"> 3<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span>This opinion piece was written by\u00a0Dr. Ionas Aurelian Rus, Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Cincinnati Blue Ash College (USA). The opinion does not necessarily represent the opinion of the editorial staff of Moldova.org. *** Unfortunately, the Moldovan press and the American and European press in general have not paid attention to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":443529,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-444069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinion"],"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\"> 3<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><p><em>This opinion piece was written by\u00a0Dr. Ionas Aurelian Rus, Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Cincinnati Blue Ash College (USA). The opinion does not necessarily represent the opinion of the editorial staff of Moldova.org.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, the Moldovan press and the American and European press in general have not paid attention to an article in an American publication, The Daily Beast, written by the Russian journalist Anna Nemtsova, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/articles\/2016\/10\/29\/igor-dodon-is-vladimir-putin-s-moldovan-mini-me.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;Igor Dodon is Vladimir Putin&#8217;s Moldovan Mini-Me&#8221;<\/a>.\u00a0In this article, the presidential candidate at that time, who is the current president of the Republic of Moldova, Igor Dodon, was quoted as saying in an interview for the above-mentioned publication that he wants to be &#8220;A dictatorial leader, the same as Putin.\u201d \u201cThe only difference between me and Putin right now,\u201d he said, \u201cis that I am not the president, yet, as soon as I become one in a few days, I will run Moldova just the same way Putin runs Russia, I assure you.\u201d According to Anna Nemtsova, &#8216;But firmly, Dodon added, \u201cIn the current anarchy that we see around, Moldova immediately needs an iron fist, a strong vertical of power.\u201d The fact that the Socialists are only a minority in the Moldovan parliament, and the fact that the Moldovan cabinet is officially pro-European Union explains why Dodon will not be able to implement his plans before the 2018 parliamentary elections. &#8216;<br \/>\nIf the party whose official leader Dodon was and whose unofficial leader he still is, the left-wing populist, pro-Russian Party of Socialists of the Republic of Moldova will win a majority of the seats in the 2018 elections, Moldova will head in an authoritarian direction. A careful analysis of the <a href=\"http:\/\/socialistii.md\/despre-partid\/programul-psrm\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">program of the party<\/a>, written before Dodon became president at the end of 2016, shows this. Interestingly enough, Dodon won the second round of the presidential elections on November 13, 2016 with 52.11% of votes after a campaign full of lies and calumnies against former Minister of Education Maia Sandu. The party wants to prohibit sex education as well as teaching in schools and universities from a national(ist) point of view. The Socialists do not believe in academic freedom and can not tolerate the criticism of Russian imperialism. The Socialists are advocating that the mass media institutions, including, of course, the opposition ones, should &#8220;benefit&#8221; from a citizens&#8217; council that guarantees their &#8220;morality&#8221; (i.e. censorship). The West is presented in the party&#8217;s program as imperialist and corrupt, while Russia is presented in a positive light, as is, in general, the former Soviet Union. Naturally, the expropriation of some companies is threatened. The program promises a welfare state like in Belarus, not anything similar to what may be found in the European Union. The party openly declares that it is in favor of the &#8220;principles of democratic centralism&#8221;, just like the old Communist Party of the Soviet Union. This program with authoritarian tendencies of the party is necessary, but not sufficient, to facilitate Dodon&#8217;s plans, discussed above, to become the dictator of the Republic of Moldova.<br \/>\nWhile Dodon&#8217;s supporters did engage in electoral fraud during the two rounds of the presidential elections of October 30 and November 13, 2016, it can not be proven that Maia Sandu won the election, and Dodon&#8217;s popularity has not decreased. The electoral fraud during the elections of 2016 was probably at most only 2-3% of the votes, and is likely to be in the same range in the parliamentary elections of 2018. The long-term danger is not so much electoral fraud, but the Socialists&#8217; schemes for the federalization of Moldova. According to their publicly available plan, the Senate will represent the three units of the federation, Moldova, the overwhelmingly ethnically Gagauz autonomous Gagauz-Yeri and currently secessionist Transnistria, which has a Russophone majority and a Russian ethnic plurality. The latter two units are overwhelmingly not only pro-Russian, but also pro-Russian imperialism. Since the cabinet and the composition of the Constitutional Court and of the Supreme Court will be approved by this Senate, which is designed to have a pro-Russian, Homo Sovieticus, large majority, the will of a potentially anti-Dodon, anti-Russian majority (even large majority) of the population could be contained and ignored on issues related to the executive and the judiciary.<br \/>\nThe U.S. and European Union should indicate clearly, in a way that does not present corruption in Moldova as a worse danger than dictatorship, that Dodon, who opposes Moldova&#8217;s European Union membership and its association agreement with the European Union, and publicly argues that the European Union should disappear, is not &#8220;another democratic choice&#8221;. It should not, however, treat every single Socialist as an advocate of dictatorship. 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