Only 4 out of 11 candidates are fighting for the position of president of Moldova, the rest know how to “drink tea and not move.” This conclusion was reached today, October 7, by publicist Dmitri Chubashenko.
According to him, this vote is representative of the active supporters of a particular candidate, “who are not too lazy to take the time to register and vote.”
“Chisinau votes more, the regions vote less. The diaspora is not represented at all. But the trend is already clear.” – said Chubashenko.
According to him, the clear favorite is the current president. Maia Sanduwho was nominated by the country’s ruling party “Action and Solidarity”, as well as a conditionally independent candidate, the former attorney general Alejandro Stoianoglobehind which are the socialists Igor Dodón. He added that his “intuition tells me that Sandu and Stoianoglo should be deducted about 5 percentage points.”
“It can be expected that their result in the elections will be around 40% and 20%, respectively. Renato Usatomou (leader of “Our Party” and Irina Vlah (independent candidate, former head of Gagauzia), on the other hand, between 5 and 7 percentage points can be added, up to approximately 15% for each. The remaining seven candidates, it seems, can now drink tea and not tremble.” – believes the analyst.
Thus, according to the journalist, the chances of Maia Sandu’s three main counter-candidates in the presidential elections, Alexander Stoianoglo, Renato Usatii and Irina Vlah, are approximately equal.
At the same time, a well-known journalist in Moldova, the “Short Factor”, expressed his confidence (Ilan Shorleader of the opposition bloc “Victoria”, announced that they will support one of the candidates against Sandu) in these elections “they cannot affect in any way the result of Sandu and Stoianoglo.”
“Shor cannot take anything away from these candidates or add anything to them. The elimination of “Shor candidates” from the elections, which the Ministry of Interior and the Central Election Commission plan to do this week, will also not affect the overall situation. Unless they eliminate someone from the top four.” — concluded Dmitri Chubashenko.
Let us remember that there are less than two weeks until the presidential elections in Moldova. The vote will take place on Sunday, October 20, the same day as the constitutional referendum on European integration.
The WatchDog organization today presented the results of a survey, which shows that if presidential elections were held next Sunday, more than 36.1% of citizens would vote for the current head of state, Maia Sandu. Also among the top four are Alexander Stoianoglo (10.1%), Renato Usatii (7.5%) and Irina Vlah (4.1%). The remaining candidates, according to the survey results, received up to 3% of the votes. At the same time, the number of citizens who were undecided about their choice was around 22%. In this sense, WatchDog notes, the data “for the four main candidates may differ slightly.”
