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Significance
This removes formal impediments to a reform agenda focused primarily on the judiciary and corruption. Despite contesting the elections in coalition with the Communists, the pro-Russian Socialist Party has been badly defeated.
Impacts
Moldova is set for four years of political stability, barring the unexpected, which is common here.
Russia will wait, and calibrate its counter-measures according to the pace at which European integration proceeds.
One disruptive option for Moscow would be to create instability in Transnistria.
EU officials will be delighted at the prospect of an uncomplicated positive relationship with untainted Moldovan leaders.
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