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soviet_man
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 Posted: Tue Apr 07, 2009 1:20 am Post subject: Moldovan Communists lead in parliamentary elections |
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http://www.mosnews.com/politics/2009/04/06/electioninmoldova/
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The Moldovan Communist Party (PCRM) has won a clear victory in parliamentary elections held on Sunday with 45.5 percent of votes cast, according to the preliminary results of an exit-poll, the Xinhua news agency reports.
The poll indicates that only three other parties managed to secure seats in the new parliament communists; the Liberal Democrat Party with 13.9 percent of votes, the Liberal Party with 13.9 percent of votes, and Our Moldova Alliance with 10 percent of the total votes. The figures were announced soon after the closing of the polling stations across Moldova, the Xinhua report specifies.
The parliamentary elections in Moldova have been acknowledged as legitimate, said the secretary of the central electoral commission Yuriy Chokan, quoted by the RIA Novosti news agency.
"Moldovan voters have demonstrated high activity, 52.4 percent have already cast their votes. According to our estimates, we expect around 60 percent to have voted by 21:00," RIA Novosti quoted Yuriy Chokan as saying.
�We can say with certainty that the parliamentary elections in Moldova can be labeled legitimate,� he said.
According to the electoral law in Moldova, elections are legitimate when 50 percent plus one of the citizens eligible to vote turn out.
The Moldovan Communist Party is well ahead in opinion polls for the new parliament, which will choose a successor to President Vladimir Voronin, who must soon step down after the end of his second term, AFP reports.
Liberal Democrats leader Vlad Filat said Sunday that he hoped to oust the Communists and "for Moldova to become a democratic and free state where human rights and freedoms are respected."
The liberal opposition could be ready to form a coalition and, along with the Communists, could be the only faction to win the minimum 6 percent required to win parliamentary seats.
The Institute of Public Politics, composed of several local think tanks and polling organizations, said the Communists would have 56 seats in the 101-member legislature.
The new parliament will have to choose a new president between April 8 and June 8 after Voronin's second term ends. |
Fantastic result. Just wanted to share the news. |
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Ya-ta Boy
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| Posted: Tue Apr 07, 2009 4:06 am Post subject: |
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That is good news. "Moldova, bringing you the middle of the 20th Century all over again."  |
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Leslie Cheswyck
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| Posted: Tue Apr 07, 2009 5:18 am Post subject: |
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We've had The Thrilla in Manila, we've had The Rumble in the Jungle, and now... we have The Holdova in Moldova.  |
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Kuros
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| Posted: Tue Apr 07, 2009 10:08 am Post subject: |
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Oh, dear. Have we lost Moldova? Next we'll lose Belarus. What? Belarus is all but Communist in name only?
We are witnessing a new vodka-soaked curtain, rising over Eastern Europe . . . |
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soviet_man
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| Posted: Tue Apr 07, 2009 12:50 pm Post subject: |
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| We are witnessing a new vodka-soaked curtain, rising over Eastern Europe . . . |
Well we never lost Moldova or Belarus in the first place.
Add to that Transdniestria, Kaliningrad, Chechnya, Abakazia and the better half of Ukraine. Even the Azeris and Kyrgyz are kicking out their US bases. For communists and socialists living on the continent, things are better in 2009, than they were a decade ago in 1999.
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| That is good news. "Moldova, bringing you the middle of the 20th Century all over again." |
Go to Moldova Ya Ta. Don't write it off. Cheap non EU prices, low cost of living, good wine and people that actually have a working alternative to capitalism. |
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Ya-ta Boy
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| Posted: Wed Apr 08, 2009 3:41 am Post subject: |
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| a working alternative to capitalism |
Oh you silly Commies and your Orwellian use of language  The only thing communism gave the world was the excuse to invent Boris and Natasha. 
Anyway, �Moldova is like a sealed jar, and youth want more access to Europe,� he said. �Everyone knows that Moldova is the smallest, poorest and the most disgraceful country. And youth are talking about how they want freedom, Europe and a different life"... Behind the confrontation is a split in Moldova�s population. The collapse of the Soviet Union brought benefits to much of Eastern Europe, but in Moldova it ushered in economic decline and instability. In 2001, angry citizens backed the return of the Communists and their social programs.
But Moldova remained desperately poor, and young people flocked overseas to work. They have looked to the West as the best path to economic stability and have defied Mr. Voronin�s government by urging closer integration with Romania.
The global financial crisis has eliminated overseas jobs, sending many of the young people back to Chisinau, their horizons suddenly narrowed
Protests in Moldova Explode, With Help of Twitter
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/08/world/europe/08moldova.html?_r=1 |
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soviet_man
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| Posted: Wed Apr 08, 2009 12:10 pm Post subject: |
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This is the thing Ya Ta --- nobody is forcing those guys to stay in Moldova.
If they want to go to the UK or the EU and pick turnips, drive taxis or sell their kidneys on the capitalist bandwagon, nobody is stopping them!
Moldova voted communist voluntarily and democratically. |
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caniff
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| Posted: Wed Apr 08, 2009 12:40 pm Post subject: |
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I hear Moldova is lovely in the springtime........well, maybe not this spring, but you know what I mean.
edit: Soviet Man, do you like my old/new avatar? |
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Ya-ta Boy
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| Posted: Wed Apr 08, 2009 1:59 pm Post subject: |
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This is the thing Ya Ta --- nobody is forcing those guys to stay in Moldova.
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I see you're using the "I stopped beating my wife" strategy. Well played! |
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soviet_man
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| Posted: Wed Apr 08, 2009 3:36 pm Post subject: |
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| Soviet Man, do you like my old/new avatar? |
I like Putin. But I like Zyuganov more (the main Russian communist opposition leader). So yes. Good. |
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Kuros
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Ya-ta Boy
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| Posted: Wed Apr 08, 2009 6:50 pm Post subject: |
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| good wine and people that actually have a working alternative to capitalism |
EQUALS
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| go to the UK or the EU and pick turnips, drive taxis or sell their kidneys on the capitalist bandwagon |
Perhaps the demonstrators are in fact trying to break into Communist Party headquarters to join up. |
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