As it turns out, the reports of a the Communists and the PDM forming a government early in December were overstated, and the opposition parties — the PDM, PL, and PLDM — have made an alliance.
I know a lot of young Moldovans who are relieved that the Communists won’t be calling the shots this year, but I think everyone can be thankful that the process was peaceful, unlike some other former Soviet republics that remain in the Russian sphere. And Brussels can take comfort in the knowledge that Moldova won’t gravitate toward Moscow in 2011 like Ukraine did in 2010 when its Orange Revolution was revealed to have been a dud.
But the real relief is that now there is a government and the politicians can focus on pulling Moldova out of poverty rather than a referendum or coalition-building. I remember when I was 17 and we all had to wait for the Supreme Court to decide whether Bush or Gore would be the next president; the wait between the election and the eventual decision seemed endless, and it felt as if the whole world was laughing at us.
That was just a month. Moldova went about twenty-one months with an interim government.
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