Moldova is one of the smallest and poorest European countries on the immediate border of the European Union. The Sunday early parliamentary elections (28 November 2010) in Moldova may be significant for the future orientation of the country. "After scheduled elections in April 2009 and snap polls in July 2009 failed to designate clear-cut winners, the forthcoming elections have been billed as another chance for Moldova to solve the institutional impasse." (the Sofia Echo) Vladimir Socor, a Senior Fellow of the Washington-based Jamestown Foundation, is quite optimistic and underscored: "It seems to me that after these elections, after November 28, for the first time, there will be the majority of 61 seats in parliament to elect a new head of state." Two other possibilities is a Communist alliance with a centrist party that can garner enough votes to elect a president, or a strong enough showing by the Communists that they can continue to block such a vote, Andrew Yurkovsky had alleged citing Socor.
