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"Mr President, the predominantly Romanian-speaking area that used to be referred to as Bessarabia, and is currently known as Moldova, alternated between being Romanian and Russian. It would never have existed as a state had it not been for the pact between Stalin and Hitler that redrew the Soviet Union’s western borders on the eve of the Second World War. Both in the Romanian-speaking sector to the west of the Dniestr and in the Slavic sector to the east, there is shared nostalgia for the kind of society that existed in the days of the Soviet Union. All those circumstances are not the ideal foundation for democracy, tolerance, transparency and pluriformity. They can result in the different peoples seeking a regime whose authoritarianism is directed against those perceived as being opponents. One cannot therefore exclude the possibility the elections being as flawed as were last year’s in Ukraine and Belarus. That is why it is important for us now to express our desire that Europe’s poorest country should have normal parliamentarian democracy, with equal rights and opportunities for all parties taking part in the elections on 6 March."@en1
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