“We have solutions for all the situations, but we don’t think we will go so far. The president will be elected. It will be a person that will have qualities of a real head of state: will be the president of all the people not of only one party,” the leader of the Liberal Democratic Party (PLDM) Vlad Filat has told Info-Prim Neo. The leader of the Liberal Party (PL) Mihai Gimpu is also optimistic about the appointment of the head of state. “I’m sure that the head of state will be elected on the day when the candidate is proposed. The Alliance for European Integration will not be discredited,” Mihai Gimpu said. “The Constitution expressly describes the situation when the president is not elected. If we do not reach a consensus, we will have early elections. The Democratic Party (PDM) is categorically against early elections,” said the PDM president Marian Lupu Serafim Urecheanu counts on the decency of some of the Communists. “No one can be absolutely sure that the head of state will be elected. We live in the Republic of Moldova and must be ready for everything. But we will overcome the situation,” said the president of the Moldova Noastra Alliance (AMN). The government coalition - the Alliance for European Integration formed by the PLDM, PL, PDM and AMN – holds 53 seats and needs eight more votes to elect the president. The head of state is elected by secret vote by minimum 61 votes. If no candidate obtains the necessary number of votes, the elections are rerun. The same candidates or new candidates can be put forward for rerun elections. If the head of state is not elected in the first or the second round of voting, the outgoing president dissolves the Parliament. The legislature can be dissolved only once in a year and if the head of state is not elected by the eighteenth Parliament we could have early legislative elections not sooner than February 2010, independent expert Ion Creanga stated to Info-Prim Neo. The Constitutional Court will examine the Central Election Commission’s report on the results of the July 29 early legislative elections at a plenary meeting on August 14. If the elections and the seats of MP are validated, the president of Moldova will have to convene the eighteenth legislature for the first sitting by August 29.