On November 15, 2020, Maia Sandu won the presidential race against Igor Dodon (57.75% to 42.25%) and became Head of State. She has been holding to the key desideratum she had in the election campaign: a different Moldova, a new political class, dissolution of Parliament, and snap parliamentary elections. 

“There are groups in Parliament that continue to pass laws against citizens, protect corruption schemes, stealing and weakening state institutions, and now they are asking us to give them more time to steal. The Moldovan people needs a responsible Parliament, to support a stable and competent Government.”

Although former president Igor Dodon lost the November campaign, he refuses to take Maia Sandu’s solutions seriously. Rivalries remain and the fight continues.

Last week, President Maia Sandu presented her activity report for the first 100 days in office. It was a trial period as well as a hot period. Dodon and his Socialists Party, by befriending those from the Shor -Sîrbu parliamentary cartel, are trying to sabotage Sandu and make up for last year’s electoral failure. The Socialists and their leader are panic-stricken, not being able to reconcile with the fact that after losing the fight for the Presidency,they have also lost the fight for early elections. As the main exponents of the neo-communist left, this failure means for them the beginning of their final political chapter. The Socialist Party did not expect two severe losses within a span of 100 days, which is why they criticize Maia Sandu daily.

Let’s go over the first 100 days of Maia Sandu’s mandate and analyze how she uses her attributions and competencies as president. In the present, Dodon and his allies lay the blame for the pandemic, the deaths, the state of emergency, the increased prices, the low pensions, the economic and the social crisis, and the lack of external financing entirely on Maia Sandu. 

To take in consideration that Moldova’s executive institutions are the Government and the Parliament, which have not resigned yet. The interim Government is a faulty functioning authority for which citizens pay taxes and the wages of the employees. A similar story refers to the Parliament created of deputies with open criminal cases.

Maia Sandu’s inauguration came at the wrong time, in the midst of a pandemic. The socialists highly speculate on it and use the aggressive blockade from the Parliament and the Government, both controlled by the Shor-Dodon parliamentary faction, to fight against the current president.

100 days is only the beginning and it’s too early to draw conclusions. What Maia Sandu certainly did not do in the first 100 days is that, unlike Dodon, she did not take revenge on anyone. Maia Sandu did not rush to meet the so-called leader of the breakaway Transnistrian region, nor did she put flowers on the graves of the mercenary Cossacks, who had come to the Nistru River with war. She did not bring Putin suitcases filled with gifts, did not take down the EU flag from the presidency, did not threaten NATO to drive them away from Moldova, nor the EU to withdraw Moldova from the Association Agreement.

Maia Sandu comes across as a different president, even if she is still at the beginning of her term – a term from which the people expect a lot, both nationally and internationally.

It took Maia Sandu less than two weeks in office to restore relations with the world and remove Moldova from international isolation, improving good neighborly relations, for which Dodon supposedly worked four years in a row. Immediately after the official ceremony, Maia Sandu invited President of Romania Klaus Iohannis for an official visit to Chișinău, after which she visited Kyiv, Brussels, Paris, and Berlin. Thus, Moldova regained its status as a state with diplomatic relations.

The socialist Vasile Bolea reproached Maia Sandu accusing that there was no point in regaining external relations if no money comes to Moldova anyway. 

Seems like the socialist lawmaker Bolea does not know that Moldova receives less money because our external partners no longer want to pour money into a state where billions are stolen, and the thieves are hiding in Parliament or traveling around the world, free from any problems with the law. 

Maia Sandu promises to put an end to it. She insists on the dissolution of Parliament, early elections, and the renewal of the ruling political class, refusing to consider other alternatives.

Her ambition to stay firm has brought tense political relations not only with the Socialists and the deputies from the Shor Party but also with her former electoral partners. It is obvious that there is no communication and unity on the right wing, which is not good, including for those from the Action and Solidarity Party. 

On April 15, the Constitutional Court will examine President Maia Sandu’s appeal regarding the circumstances that justify the dissolution of the Parliament. According to the president, if the Court issues a positive conclusion, “we will proceed according to the scenario desired by the citizens of Moldova – early elections.” Imposing the current state of emergency will not “delay the dissolution of this Parliament”, Sandu claims.

It is her strongest statement marking 100 days in office.