“Whoever believes him, let them wear his hat.” This is how Igor Grosu commented on the visit of the agreed Russian ambassador to Gagauzia, this week.
The speaker believes that the book donation was just a pretext, reports realitatea.md. In his opinion, the real purpose of the visit would have been discussions about the elections that need to take place in the region.
“Obviously, he went to encourage them, behold such characters. We will not allow anyone, I sincerely told them, anyone to interfere in the internal affairs of the Republic of Moldova.
“And the elections, for the benefit of the citizens of the Republic of Moldova, for the benefit of the inhabitants of Gagauzia, must be conducted according to the law of the Republic of Moldova. The peculiarities that they have there, the age census, the single-member system, but otherwise, colleagues, the lists must be clean, the money must be transparent, the electoral operation must pass the checks. Nobody is with a star on their forehead, to say that for other districts we will proceed like this, but for these, because they are special, we exempt them from these rules. It doesn’t work,” said Igor Grosu.
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Disinfo sources reported that, a few days after the launch of the simplified procedure for granting Russian citizenship to the inhabitants of the Transnistrian region by the Russian Federation embassy, Oleg Ozerov went to Comrat and conveyed that Chisinau’s direction of distancing from the CIS and approaching the European Union does not correspond to the interests of Gagauzia, and the agreed compromises regarding the elections would not represent a priority.