REPORT - Moldova's Early Elections: A Transition in Need of Support
The Brussels-based
democracy assistance organization European Partnership for Democracy (EPD) has
the pleasure of introducing its report on the current developments in Moldova
entitled “Moldova’s Early Elections: A Transition in Need of Support”. As part
of the EPD series of Working Papers on Democracy Assistance, Kristina Prunerova,
Programme Manager responsible for the Post-soviet region, reports on the state
of political affairs in the Republic of Moldova after the two parliamentary
elections held in 2009. The first elections, held in April, were followed by
demonstrations and a violent crackdown by the authorities, which resulted in a
political stalemate and fresh elections in July. These saw opposition parties
together win more than 50% of the vote and, at the time of writing, were
negotiating to create a coalition government that would drive forward Moldova’s
transition to democracy. In this study Ms. Prunerova analyses the situation
between the regular and early elections in spring this year, outlines the main
challenges in the post-election period and proposes what more the international
community needs to do to assist Moldova at this fragile stage in its democratic
evolution. Read the full report here.