Ceban on Changing Rhetoric Regarding the “Moldovan Language” and the Customs Union: I Regret Nothing

Such a statement was made by the mayor of the capital, Ion Ceban, in response to a question about his shift away from rhetoric concerning the “Moldovan language” and integration into the Customs Union. He explained that his earlier stance was a protest against “a government that brought us to the brink of catastrophe”, and added that it will be “the citizens who will express their appreciation”, according to agora.md. “I was protesting against the actions of the government in my own country. There was an alliance for so-called European integration that led us into a dead end, and now there’s another one continuing the same course. They stole a billion, they alienated the airport, they shut down schools,” the mayor said. According to Ceban, it is the residents of the capital who will judge him. He also stated that, at present, the war on the border is shaping the “global stance” on these issues. “Every day I am concerned with the problems of the citizens. It is they who will judge me. Today we are facing circumstances that didn’t exist ten years ago: a war at our border. A circumstance that defines and redefines the global stance as a whole. Maia Sandu was also a pioneer. Do you regret that now or not?” Ion Ceban replied. Between 2012 and 2019, while a member of the Party of Socialists of the Republic of Moldova (PSRM), Ion Ceban organized anti-European protests in Brussels and advocated for the integration of our country into the Eurasian Customs Union. Later, as the leader of the “National Alternative Movement” (MAN), officially registered in 2022, Ion Ceban stated that “European integration must become the national idea”.