Dodon: PAS Is Giving Away Moldova’s Key Assets and Land to Foreign Powers

“PAS is driving our country into debt dependence on foreign powers, handing over control of the state and giving away Moldova’s key assets and land,” said Igor Dodon, chairman of the Party of Socialists. He made the remarks while commenting on news that the Metropolis of Bessarabia had recently won a court ruling to revoke the “right of use” of the Metropolis of Moldova over more than 800 churches that are classified as historical monuments in the Republic of Moldova. He noted that the authorities in Bucharest had failed to convince Moldovans to renounce their independence, identity, and statehood and agree to the annexation of the country by Romania. Despite three decades of pro-Romanian propaganda in schools and the media, the overwhelming majority of Moldovans haven’t become unionists. However, the ideologues of the Romanian unionist movement are not giving up and are now resorting to more insidious methods. Igor Dodon argued that in recent years, since a Romanian citizen assumed the presidency of the Republic of Moldova, the PAS government has been treacherously promoting Bucharest’s political and economic interests. This includes appointing Romanian citizens to key government positions (including the leadership of the National Bank of Moldova), selling strategic assets (such as the Giurgiulești port) to Romanian companies, and transferring Moldovan land and buildings to the Metropolis of Bessarabia, which is effectively a branch of the Romanian Patriarchate. He pointed out that the Metropolis of Bessarabia recently obtained a court ruling, “successfully reformed” by Maia Sandu’s government, to revoke the “right of use” of the Metropolis of Moldova over more than 800 churches that have the status of historical monuments in the Republic of Moldova. This allows for the transfer of hundreds of land plots and important objects under the control of the Romanian structure, which acts here as a cover for the unionist and geopolitical interests of the Bucharest authorities. “We, the Party of Socialists, believe that PAS’s policies are an act of national treason. PAS is driving our country into debt dependence on external forces, handing over control of the state and giving them important assets and land in Moldova. As we warned voters before the elections, with the ‘yellow cuttlefish’ in power, the Republic of Moldova risks disappearing as a state, and we see that PAS is aggressively pursuing a path that undermines Moldovan sovereignty,” said Igor Dodon, chairman of the Socialist Party and former President of Moldova.