There has finally been an update to the situation in Moldova, as there has been a relative media blackout post-election. Before anything, recall my latest post:

I wasn????????t initially excited about the opposition????????s prospects here, or their ties to Moscow, but this could turn out to be very interesting. While the opposition is somewhat fragmented right now, they could potentially unite on their broader ideals and prevent Voronin from gathering the necessary votes he needs. Two things could happen then: the communists would have to settle for a more agreeable candidate in order to get the necessary votes, or the opposition could stall parliament altogether.

If 61 votes are not achieved for a candidate within three tries, parliament is dissolved and a new parliamentary election is held. This would potentially garner even more votes toward the opposition.

There are supposed to be some protests staged today. More on that as they materialize. This revolution, if it as well materializes, is certainly looking a lot different than the others we????????ve witnessed.

Those protests, however, have been cancelled.

Iurie Rosca, leader of the Christian Democrats, argued that “conditions were unequal” in the election, Itar-Tass reported. But both leaders said they had dropped plans for postelection street protests, the news agency said.

No wonder I couldn’t find any information on them. More importantly than this, the opposition has done exactly what I said might happen, and has united in an effort to completely stall parliament from selection Voronin as Moldova’s president again.

Leaders of both opposition parties said Monday that they intended to boycott Parliament’s presidential vote in a bid to force a new election, the Russian news agency Itar-Tass reported. It was unclear, however, whether their statements were simply a negotiating tactic.

“Voronin will not be supported by my bloc,” Chisinau Mayor Serafim Urechean, leader of Democratic Moldova, said at a news conference.

Rather unprecedented, given the fragmentation between the opposition before the elections. Like I said, if there is an election rerun, I believe that the opposition will clearly take more votes than it did this time. It’s too early to tell if it will happen, though. The Christian Democrats, who are to be awarded 11 seats in Parliament, a more pro-European than they are pro-Russia– as Democratic Moldova is — in their leanings, especially toward their neighbor in Romania. They would be the easiest for Voronin’s pro-European communists to sway, and I think the prime minister foreshadowed this in this statement:

In Romania, Prime Minister Calin Tariceanu said his government was still waiting “to see what the future political configuration will be.”

“I hope with all my heart that Moldova’s choices will be clearly pro-European,” Tariceanu said. “In this way, I can tell you that not only will Romania be happy, but we can give a helping hand to Moldovans to fulfill their European aspirations.”

Let’s see if the opposition can keep it together long enough to force a re-vote.