AEI close to finishing distributing ministries
The Democratic Party (PDM) will be responsible for four ministries in the future Government, while the Moldova Noastra Alliance (AMN) – for three. Official sources in the PDM have told Info-Prim Neo that the party has already decided who will head the four ministries, but refused to give names. The AMN's Standing Bureau will make a relevant decision at a meeting later today.
In the Government headed by the Prime Minister elect Vlad Filat, the PDM's representatives will head the Ministry of Economy, the Ministry of Labor, Social Protection and Family, the Ministry of Culture and the Ministry of Construction and Regional Development. Unofficial sources said that the given ministries will be led by Valeriu Laza, former minister of economy in the Tarlev Government, Valentina Buliga, a member of the PDM, Svetlana Bivol, the director of the National Philharmonic “Serghei Lunchevici”, and Anatolie Ghilas, who had headed the Cadaster Division in Chisinau.
The Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Agriculture and Food Industry and the Ministry of Information Technology and Communications will be managed by the AMN.
At the meetings of the working group composed of representatives of the four parties that formed the Alliance for European Integration (AEI) – the PLDM, PL, PDM and AMN – it was decided to institute four posts of deputy prime minister. As in the Parliament, these posts will be held by representatives of the four parties. The deputy prime ministers will be responsible for the foreign policy, the reunification of the country, economic matters and social matters.
As the Premier elect and leader of the PLDM Vlad Filat said, the Liberal-Democrats will be in charge of five ministries in the future Government. These are: the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and European Integration, the Ministry of Justice, the Ministry of the Interior, the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Health. The leader of the Liberal Party Mihai Ghimpu said that his party will be responsible for four ministries in the future Government – the Ministry of Defense, the Ministry of the Environment, the Ministry of Youth and Sport, and the Ministry of Transport and Road Infrastructure.
The Communists Party (PCRM) will head no ministry in the new Government. “It is a norm of the Democratic game. The Government is formed by the parliamentary majority who assumed responsibility to govern the country. The Communists are now in the Opposition. They had been in power for eight years and this is enough,” said the AMN MP Leonid Bujor.
The Parliament is to approve the composition of the new Government at its Friday's sitting.