Moldova reloaded

After the riots in the wake of the elections in April the parliament in Moldova was unable to elect a president (according to the constitutional provisions a candidate needs 61 votes in the 101 member parliament, the communist party had only 60 MPs) and as the constitution prescribes early elections were held at the end of July. The results - although the communists still retained their position as the far largest party - are different enough to modify the balance of power, but not different enough to resolve the deadlock. The outcome is highly improbable, even though adherents of so-called pro-European parties are in a cheerful mood, celebrating the fall of the last communist government. I do not want to discuss the options and possibilities as I have very limited expertise on the Moldavian politics. But the situation has some underlying characteristics worth to outline, more precisely the distorting effect and influence of the application of a very limited dichotomy - pro-Europeans and pro-Russians - regarding the political divisions in the area on the perception of external observes.