Maia Sandu

Maia Sandu (2019)

Maia Sandu (born May 24, 1972 in Risipeni , Făleşti Rajon , Moldovan SSR ) is a Moldovan economist and politician . Sandu was Prime Minister of the Republic of Moldova from June 8, 2019 to November 14, 2019 .

education

From 1989 to 1994 she studied business administration at the Moldovan Academy of Economics (ASEM). From 1995 to 1998 she studied international relations at the Academy for Public Administration (AAP) in Chișinău . In 2010 she graduated from Harvard Kennedy School at Harvard University .

Political career

From 2010 to 2012 she worked as a consultant at the World Bank in Washington, DC From 2012 to 2015 she was Minister of Education of the Republic of Moldova. According to newspaper reports, she gained great popularity during this time because she consistently took action against corruption in schools.

She was nominated as a candidate for the office of Prime Minister of Moldova on July 23, 2015 by the Liberal Democratic Party . The day after she was proposed by a new pro-European coalition, she cited the resignation of the head of the Moldovan National Bank, Dorin Dragutanu , and the prosecutor Corneliu Gurin as a condition of her candidacy . In the end, Valeriu Streleț was appointed Prime Minister instead of Sandu by the Moldovan President.

On December 23, 2015, she founded the “În / pas / cu Maia Sandu” platform, which later developed into a political party. In retrospect it was announced that the future party would be called “ Partidul Acțiune și Solidaritate ” (“Action and Solidarity Party”).

In the first round of the Moldovan presidential election on October 31, 2016, she came second with 38.42% of the vote. Igor Dodon received 48.23%. Young people and people from urban areas had mostly voted for Maia Sandu. In the autonomous region of Gagauzia, however, the pro-Russian socialist leader Igor Dodon won 91 percent of the votes, while there was uncertainty about Dodon's overhang among voters from Transnistria. In the second ballot, Sandu was able to increase to 47.82%, but Igor Dodon won with 52.18%.

Conflict over election to prime minister

On June 8, 2019, Sandu, as a candidate of the Action and Solidarity party , was elected as the new head of government by the Parliament of the Republic of Moldova against the will of the Constitutional Court and against the resistance of Vladimir Plahotniuc , who did not want to recognize the legitimacy of parliament and the government.

In response to this, the Constitutional Court suspended Dodon from his office on June 9, 2019 and installed the previous Prime Minister Pavel Filip as interim president. The reason for this is that the parties had not succeeded in forming a government within the deadline prescribed by the constitution (by June 7). At the request of the PDM (Chairman: Plahotniuc), the Constitutional Court therefore called for the proposed dissolution of parliament and new elections in this case, but this did not take place and declared all resolutions of the Sandu government to be invalid. Filip, on the other hand, signed a decree dissolving parliament and calling new elections on September 6, 2019 after his installation.

Thereupon three former Moldovan constitutional judges criticized the judgments. Victor Puscas said that “none of what the Constitutional Court has found in the past few days is constitutional”. Nicolae Osmochescu said the Constitutional Court had clearly "miscalculated" the 90-day deadline to dissolve parliament. According to Article 85 of the Moldovan Constitution, the deadline "does not run from the validation of the parliamentary mandates, but begins with the first parliamentary session, which in fact took place on March 21". In addition, 84 Moldovan non-governmental organizations suggested that the six constitutional judges close to Plahotniuc should resign.

The Secretary General of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe , Thorbjørn Jagland , called on the European Commission for Democracy through Law ( Venice Commission ) to review the recent judgments of the Constitutional Court. He described the judgments as "apparently arbitrary". The EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Federica Mogherini , and EU Enlargement Commissioner Johannes Hahn said that “the EU is ready to work with the democratically legitimate government” under the new Prime Minister. The US State Department warned that the “will of the Moldovan people must be respected without further interference” in the parliamentary elections on February 24th. The Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitri Kosak praised the “courage” of the Moldovan socialists and pro-Europeans to form a coalition, the support from the EU and the USA and welcomed the election of Zinaida Greceanîi as the new Speaker of Parliament.

Vote of no confidence

On November 12, 2019, her government failed after a vote of no confidence by the co-ruling socialists, supported by the Democratic Party of Moldova.

Controversy

In 2018, Sandu stated of Romania's former leader Ion Antonescu that he was "a historical figure who can be told both good and bad things". Her remarks have been sharply criticized by the Moldovan Jewish Community (CERM), which issued an open letter stating: “The lack of sanctions for Holocaust denial and the glorification of fascism in Moldovan law allows some opinion leaders and political leaders Leaders not to be held accountable for such acts, and they can create their public image by falsifying and revising historical facts and using interethnic and religious factors to promote interreligious discrimination and hatred. "

In 2018, information surfaced in the Moldovan press that the Open Dialogue Foundation (ODF) was covering the travel expenses of Sandu and PPDA boss Andrei Năstase when they attended a conference on human rights in Moldova held in Brussels. Shortly thereafter, the parliamentary committee of inquiry investigated the alleged interference of the Open Dialog Foundation and its chairperson Lyudmyla Kozlovska in Moldovan internal affairs and concluded: “PAS and PPDA and their chairpersons have benefited from and have benefited from illegal funding from the Open Dialog Foundation not reported accordingly ".

As education minister, Maia Sandu was charged with paying excessive sums of money for 1,200 surveillance cameras made in China for high school graduation exams. Charges were brought against her, but were later dropped. Former prosecutor Ivan Diacov stated that Maia Sandu “postponed the tender three times so that the right bidder wins the tender. I take responsibility for it. I've closed the case ”.

Web links

Commons : Maia Sandu  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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2. ↑ Keno Verseck: Moldova: overthrow of the government - end of a reform summer. In: Spiegel Online . November 13, 2019, accessed May 15, 2020 . 
3. ↑ Reinhard Veser: The step over the big ditch. In: FAZ.net . June 21, 2019, accessed May 15, 2020 . 
4. ^ Ex-World Bank economist set to become prime minister in Moldova . www.dw.com/en. Retrieved July 24, 2015.
5. ↑ Moldova PM nominee pushes tough demands for taking top job . www.reuters.com/. Retrieved July 25, 2015.
6. ^ Republic of Moldova - No marching through for the man from Moscow , NZZ, November 1, 2016
7. ↑ Moldova's President Dodon disempowered. In: dw.com. November 15, 2019, accessed May 15, 2020 . 
8. ↑ beb / dpa: Republic of Moldova: State crisis comes to a head after the president is recalled. In: Spiegel Online . June 9, 2019, accessed May 15, 2020 . 
9. ^ "Power struggle in the Republic of Moldova" ( Memento from June 11, 2019 in the Internet Archive ), Oberösterreichisches Volksblatt , June 10, 2019.
10. ↑ Unusual government alliance in Moldova failed , Spiegel online, November 12, 2019.
11. ↑ Scrisoare deschisă a Comunității Evreiești din Republica Moldova cu privire la declarația liderului PAS Maia Sandu . Retrieved June 10, 2019.
12. ↑ Ludmila Kozlowska, expulzată din UE, a recunoscut că a plătit pentru deplasările Maiei Sandu la Bruxeles . Retrieved June 10, 2019.
13. ^ Scots firms 'in £ 26m laundering link to Putin' . Retrieved June 10, 2019.
14. ↑ An Edinburgh flat, a human rights activist and the oligarchs `` dirty money '' . Retrieved June 10, 2019.
15. ↑ Andrei Năstase, despre concluziile comisiei de ancheta privind “Open Dialog”: Scopul este să mă excludă din cursa electorală . Retrieved June 10, 2019.
16. ↑ Fost procuror dă de înțeles că Maia Sandu a fost implicată în fraudarea unei licitații - am clasat dosarul . Retrieved June 10, 2019.