Political analyst Dionis Cenușa stated that “the information about the ‘cousins’ scandal has reached the European Commission. Probably, this is why we are seeing so many resignations in a chain. But still not enough, until new elections or perhaps even early elections, if a completely disproportionate fiscal reform is insisted upon from the perspective of social balance,” TRIBUNA reports.

According to him, there seems to be an attempt to redirect votes from those quickly disappointed in PAS and the President toward someone or something else. The problem for the government, he argued, is that it lacks real allies to whom such a migration of votes would not be damaging, since it would represent an investment in a future governing coalition.

“And those recently affiliated with the governing camp are not afraid to criticize it, risking accusations that they are destabilizing the country. Do you know why? Probably because they were among those who used to make such accusations against others and who provided foreign governments with distorted information to put them under sanctions. This is a hypothesis worth verifying,” he added in a Facebook post.

The expert noted that, in this context, what is being undermined is the image of the EU. “I warned (colleagues and friends know what I mean) that the crises of trust through which the Chișinău government will inevitably pass will turn into mistrust toward the EU. From this logic, the current government will proceed when penalizing its representatives. But one thing is certain: the opposition is strengthening its motivation to use protests as a political tool (after this instrument was monopolized and discredited for five years by Șor’s representatives),” Cenușa concluded.