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Zuza
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« on: December 01, 2014, 03:56:40 PM »

Oh, the PCR is the Communist Party of Reformers. Electoral slogan is "Against everyone who's been in power! Vote for the young team of reformers!". Program is absolute pie in the sky stuff*, but they seem to be natural junior partners in a Pro-Eurasian coaltion. That's if they get in, because as more votes come in from the pro-Western areas, they may yet fall below the threshold.

* Favorite bit of the program: "We'll provide every guest worker that comes back home the income he or she had abroad."

They also proposed (not in the program you mentioned, but according to this test) to solve Transnistrian conflict by transforming Moldova into a federation of 4 entities (Chisinau, Moldova, Gagauzia and Transnistria) and state support for Orthodox Christianity (though the latter is not especially surprising for post-Soviet "communists"). Interestingly enough, this test also shows that they are neither pro-Russian nor pro-European (against recognition of Russian language as official and against joining EU, NATO or the Customs Union). I have no idea how their typical voter look like and how this previously virtually unknown party managed to get so many votes (maybe people confused them with Voronin's PCRM?). Another surprising result (besides, of course, PSRM, which seem to draw off many PCRM voters) is that of Liberal Reformist Party, which was close to 6% threshold according to some pre-election polls but in the election received only 1.5 %.
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Zuza
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« Reply #1 on: December 01, 2014, 04:10:22 PM »

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Is any party in Moldova even in favor of unification?

Former acting President Mihai Ghimpu, leader of the Liberal Party, was first elected to parliament as a member of the pro-unification Popular Front (indeed, his brother was actually leader of the Popular Front). I don't think he volunteers an explicit position these days but he does still maintain the language spoken in Moldova is Romanian, which, you know, read between the lines.

The Popular Front itself became the Christian Democratic Popular Party, which had seats in the last decade and has polled above 1% in a couple of polls this campaign.

In the electoral test I referred to above representative of the Liberal Party explicitly supported unification, while both Communist parties, PSRM, Patria, PDM and (surprisingly) the Christian Democratic People's Party opposed it (PLDM and PLR didn't express their opinion, and I didn't count various tiny irrelevant parties and candidates who also gave their answers). But, anyway, it won't be an issue in the foreseeable future...
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