Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/256654 
Year of Publication: 
2020
Series/Report no.: 
SWP Comment No. 59/2020
Publisher: 
Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP), Berlin
Abstract: 
World media have hailed the victory of Maia Sandu in the Moldovan presidential elec­tions on 15 November. They celebrated it as a triumph of democracy and pro-Western preferences over post-Soviet cronyism, authoritarianism and Russian apologists. The reality is more complex while there are few reasons for optimism. Sandu's victory is a fragile one as the conditions that delivered it were temporary only. However, she may have unwittingly discovered how to attract voters who traditionally preferred Russia-backed candidates. The EU would benefit by learning from this accidental solution, which is of value regionwide, and deriving from it a thought-out strategy to more effectively support and protect genuine democratic transformation in Moldova and the post-Soviet area.
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Document Type: 
Research Report

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