Ecaterina Mardarovici, chairwoman of the National Council of NGOs, recommended the politicians who are currently negotiating the formation of the parliamentary majority, to stop “coloring” the ministries and determine that every appointed minister will represent the whole coalition and not only the party that nominated him or her. Mardarovici participated alongside other civil society representatives in the debate “Society and the political class show a poor understanding of the public nature of negotiations on coalition formation: reasons, dangers, solutions”, organized by IPN in partnership with Radio Moldova.

“Politicians should at least put together their promises and see where we'll end up with NATO or without it, forward or backwards, etc. Unfortunately, it's hard for the Moldovan political class to get rid of certain habits. The negotiators think more about how to trick their coalition partners. It will be sad if it happens again and their secrecy makes us think it will. The mistake that has been repeated over the last 20 years in Moldova is not that they share offices and positions, but their refusal to understand that an appointed minister ought to represent the entire coalition”, explained Mardarovici.

The head of the NGO Council recommended the politicians “to stop assigning colors blue, green or red to ministries and to govern without ribbon-cutting ceremonies because the voters are already sick of such events”.

The debate “Society and the political class show a poor understanding of the public nature of negotiations on coalition formation: reasons, dangers, solutions” is the 36th in the series “Developing political culture in public debates”, organized with the support of the Hanns Seidel Foundation.