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Dec 11, 2021Liked by David Smith

Hi David!

Very interesting events described yesterday! The whole story of the elections in Bălți, in particular, has tragi-comic aspects ... I am not a fan of the Șor Party (nor of Tauber) at all, but I have the impression that this time the CEC confused it badly ... However, I also noticed a typical Moldovan anomaly: PAS (along with PLDM) are full member parties of the International Democrat Union, the international right-wing conservative party. (https://www.idu.org/members/) At the same time, the IDU includes a regional political union: the European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) Party. Of which the Șor Party is a part! (https://ecrparty.eu/about#family) In a way, we can say that PAS and ȘOR are colleagues, even if indirectly, within IDU, because, theoretically, they share the same ideology and the same values ​​of the right! This, even PAS, in its Statute, declares itself a party with social-liberal doctrine (so, center-left), and ȘOR is known for the eminently left-wing political approaches and for the pro-Russian tendency. I give these data here only for scientific rigor, I do not judge them. (However, I can't understand how the hell the Șor Party was received in the ECR Party?!? Stupidity or corruption?)

Turning to another topic now, as I suppose you know, Ghenadie Tanas was exposed as corrupt by a fellow citizen of the same city, Ungheni, namely Andrian Cheptonar. He worked at SIS for a while and is now a PAS deputy. No wonder, then, that as a former (and current?) Member of the secret services, he had access to a lot of data about Tanas. In any case, justice must be done.

P.S. If you ever consider a serious and exhaustive analysis of Moldovan parties, I would be happy to give you a helping hand if you deem it necessary.

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