Communists could benefit from the riots

The daily Postimees compares the situation in Moldova with that in the other "wine republic", Georgia. Although international observers have not criticised the elections in Moldova the paper notes that there was a lack of genuine debate: "Perhaps the communists will even benefit from the rioting because it enables them to brand the entire opposition as vandals and hooligans. After the Soviet Union collapsed this party never tried to ensure a free flow of information, so there has been no intellectual liberation and there are no foundations for open debate. This is the main difference between Moldova and Georgia: the political elite there has changed twice, in the 1990s and in 2003, and the dissatisfaction with President Mikhail Saakashvili comes across more like a battle for the throne."

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