Analysts caution that the still influential Communists have a chance to retain the presidency, in any event, because pro-European parties do not have enough votes to choose one of their own.

VOA: standard.2009.08.29

"We don't want to rob people of a constitutional right but - I kind of don't like saying this, but I'm going to do it, and that is - to err on the side of protection is the chance sometimes we have to take."

VOA: standard.2010.05.06