RFE: Moldova's Interim Leader Dissolves Parliament, Calls Snap Elections
Moldova has plunged deeper into political crisis after the country's top court suspended President Igor Dodon and his appointed replacement dissolved parliament and called for snap elections.
Thousands of people massed in the capital, Chisinau, on June 9 in support of Dodon's replacement, Pavel Filip, while Dodon slammed the court's decision and accused a rival political party, the Democratic Party -- backed by an influential tycoon -- of trying to cling to power.
The crisis adds more instability to Moldova, one of Europe's poorest states, long plagued by corruption and politically divided by those favoring closer ties with the European Union, and those wanting tighter relations with Russia.
Protesters, who were bussed into the capital by the Democratic Party, chanted, "We are the people, Dodon is the traitor."
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