2023-05-21 09:46:53
Tens of thousands of people called for a European future for their country at a mass rally in the Moldovan capital Chisinau on Sunday. At the same time, further pro-European rallies of the Moldovan diaspora were planned in a total of 33 European cities. Moldova’s President Maia Sandu and the President of the European Parliament, Roberta Metsola, also took part in the mass rally.
The pro-European head of state had called for the meeting in Chisinau as a reaction to the ongoing protests by the pro-Russian opposition, above all the Shor party of the oligarch of the same name who had gone into hiding in Israel: It is important to work “for our European path”, so that the world does not just ” Sandu had demanded that he hear the voices of “thieves” and the anti-government protests of the pro-Russian forces financed “with dirty money”.
At the major rally on Sunday, the President emphasized that “Europe is much more than just a political slogan” and “peace, security and progress” means what ultimately everyone in the country, “regardless of whether it’s Romanian, Russian, Ukrainian or of Gagauz descent” wishes. Her country’s declared goal is “to be a full member of the European Union by 2030,” said Sandu.
For her part, EU Parliament President Metsola assured the Moldovan citizens that “our future is a common one” – Moldova had “chosen Europe” and was fully entitled to determine its own destiny.
On the eve of the rallies, President Sandu expressly warned in an interview with the public TV channel Moldova 1 that, to her knowledge, the Kremlin was far from burying its plans for a coup in Moldova – Moscow is still striving to find out more in Chisinau to set up a puppet government in order to be able to “use Moldova once morest Ukraine”, according to the Moldovan top politician. The country lying between Romania and Ukraine has around 2.6 million inhabitants.
Simultaneously with Sunday’s gathering, the pro-Russian Shor party called on its supporters for further anti-government protests and called for a referendum on the country’s pro-European stance.
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