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Article: Eyes on Romania. (elections in Moldavia) (Europe)
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- February 17, 1990
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FROM OUR MOSCOW CORRESPONDENT
MORE than 1,890 people are standing for 380 seats in Moldavia's parliament. The near-certain winner is the Moldavian Popular Front. This began as a loose cultural organisation, and blossomed last summer into the focus of nationalist revival. Unlike its Baltic equivalents, though, the Moldavian Popular Front has stopped short of demanding either full independence or unification with Romania, the country with which Moldavians share not only a border but a language, history and now even a political party (the capital, Kishinev, boasts a branch of Romania's Peasants' party).
The Popular Front has endorsed candidates in all the ...