Nastase Offers Sandu to Refuse to Participate in the Elections

The Platform DA candidate for the presidency, Andrei Nastase, proposed the PAS candidate Maia Sandu that she should abandon the electoral race. The politician believes that Maia Sandu “cannot beat Igor Dodon”. Moreover, Nastase is convinced that it will be he who will win if Sandu supports his candidacy, promising to offer her a key position in the state as soon as he becomes president, agora.md reports. Năstase cites opinion polls, “which, unfortunately, do not give the PAS candidate a chance to outcompete Igor Dodon in the second round, as in 2016.” “The same sociological surveys clearly demonstrate that, as in 2016, the only candidate able to defeat Igor Dodon is the candidate of the DA Platform. Sociological arguments are based on dozens of studies conducted since early 2020 and involve the entire population of Moldova, and the success in this case is associated with the previous activities, the background, profile and personality of the electoral opponents,” Nastase explained. In this regard, the candidate from the DA platform voiced a proposal to Maia Sandu that the PAS should return to the ACUM bloc again, and she abandon the political rally. “I ask Ms. Maia Sandu to weigh our national cause and to abandon the electoral race, in which, according to all sociological studies, she cannot beat Igor Dodon. I also ask them to support me frankly and with the utmost interest, as my colleagues from the DA Platform and I did in the 2016 fall election campaign. I publicly declare that as soon as I win the presidential elections, given that the citizens of Moldova will vote for the project for the country, for its European development, I will launch legal and constitutional procedures to build the parliamentary majority with the appointment of Ms. Maia Sandu to one of the key public positions,” Nastase said. Maia Sandu has made no comments on this proposal so far.