The Republic of Moldova is experiencing another political crisis created in its Parliament. The PCM [Communist Party of Moldova] which won the last elections or stole them [depending on the person’s opinion] failed to have their candidate for President Zinaida Greceanii elected.

The PCM has 60 of the 101 votes in Parliament but needed 61 votes for their Presidential Candidate to be elected by Parliament. The rest of the votes are held by the opposition who promised to boycott Greceanii and PCM with the intention of forcing a dissolution of parliament and new elections.

It remains to be seen how the Presidential Deadlock which triggered the current political crisis will play itself. Moldova remains divided after the April 2009 elections in which the opposition claimed that there was fraud. The country is also divided between the older generation who remember the times under the USSR with fondness and the younger generation who wants closer ties with Europe.

Moldova is also divided between the Romanian and Moldovan Speaking People and the Russian Speaking minority located in the Trans-Dniester Region.