{"id":445723,"date":"2018-07-22T13:41:33","date_gmt":"2018-07-22T13:41:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/?p=445723"},"modified":"2018-07-22T13:47:31","modified_gmt":"2018-07-22T13:47:31","slug":"weekly-roundup-kozak-back-eu-council-concerned-moldova-shor-threatens-belt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/weekly-roundup-kozak-back-eu-council-concerned-moldova-shor-threatens-belt\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Roundup: Kozak is back, EU Council concerned about Moldova, Shor threatens with a belt"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading Time: <\/span> 6<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>

The Weekly Roundup is back after a two weeks break. Sorry about that, the world outside the window was more attractive to the editor that the news in Moldova.<\/p>\n

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Protests of the opposition continue:\u00a0<\/strong>The pro-European extra-Parliamentary opposition parties, united\u00a0under the ACUM Committee, continue their protests in Chi\u0219in\u0103u, asking for the validation of the Chi\u0219in\u0103u mayor election results and the reform of the electoral law for the Parliamentary elections which are expected to take place after 30 November this year, but before February 2019.<\/p>\n

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Protests against the opposition:\u00a0<\/strong>Infamous banker, businessman, and Orhei mayor, Ilan Shor, gathered his supporters this week in front of the office of PAS party. Shor and his fellas condemned the declarations of the Liberal-Democrats and opposition leaders Maia Sandu and Andrei N\u0103stase, who suggested Shor’s so-called “social shops” should be regarded as tools to launder the latter from the image of the “billion thief”.<\/p>\n

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Dionis Cenu\u0219a argues in an opinion piece<\/a> that Shor’s protest is just an attempt to get public attention ahead of the Parliamentary elections and to hit the opposition leader Maia Sandu who criticized him for being the “architect of the billion theft”. His 80 (or so) social shops represent tools to use the poor, aged electorate in his penal and political cases.<\/p>\n

Shor went further by threatening Sandu and N\u0103stase with a belt in a Facebook video but also promising “lustration” to “every journalist” who “wrote bad things” about this protests. We can ignore the high price of the belt- Shor was and is known to be rich enough-, but the threatening part is how he promises to use the belt- by slapping Sandu’s and N\u0103stase’s buttocks. Funny or not, it is true:<\/p>\n