Good English-language analysis of post-election Moldova

EUObserver.com recently published an analysis of the situation in Moldova after the July 29 election, written by Nicu Popescu, a research fellow with the London-based European Council on Foreign Relations.

Mr. Popescu is originally from the Republic of Moldova and has authored numerous commentaries for Imedia. He also has a personal blog mostly in Romanian.

The article concludes:
"The Communists (reformed or not) might be back in power one, four or eight years; or they might disintegrate as a party when Voronin retires. What matters at this stage for Moldova is to drastically, quickly and irreversibly de-monopolise the political and economic system of the country. Moldova is not yet “Central Europe”, but has so far managed to avoid a typically authoritarian post-Soviet model of political and economic power that makes elections irrelevant."

Full article is available here.