The presidential elections will be held in Moldova on May 30. The country's parliament will try to elect the head of state. Both two candidates represent the ruling - a communist - party. They are Prime Minister Zinaida Grechany and Academician and Neurosurgeon Stanislav Gropa. Grechany has been nominated by the party plenum, Gropa - only by fifteen parliamentarians, Vesti reported.
Woman can become the head of the state for the first time in the former Soviet Union. The country's current president and chairman of the parliament Vladimir Voronin has proposed Zinaida Grechany's candidature for the post. She is currently acting prime minister, and is a compromise figure for majority of the Moldovan society, according to experts' estimates.
Just Zynaida Grechany successfully negotiated with the Paris Club on restructuring Moldova's debts. A long-term and mutually beneficial contract was signed with Gazprom thanks to her efforts. After her joining the negotiating process, the Moldovan wine was allowed, finally, to the Russian market.
Moldova - is the parliamentary republic and parliamentarians elect the president. At present, communists who are majority (they occupy exactly 60 seats) lack only one vote that namely Grechany who is not a member of any party will become a new president of Moldova. A total of 61 parliamentarians' vote is needed to elect the president. Therefore, main intrigue now is whether Vladimir Voronin will convince opposition parties or individual candidates from oppositional parliamentary parties to support this candidate
Previous elections in the Moldovan parliament were held half months ago - April 5 and mass unrest occurred in Kishinev on April 7 which seriously destroyed the centre of the city and about 300 people, including 100 policemen suffered. Monitors of international organizations, such as the EU OSCE and CIS recognized the results of the April elections as legitimate. The Constitutional Court of Moldova also recognized the votes as legitimate. Meanwhile, opposition states that they will boycott the elections. If the acting parliament does not elect a new president with two attempts, Vladimir Voronin will have to dissolve the parliament and launch a procedure of extraordinary parliamentary elections.