The parliamentary majority didn’t support the censure motion put forward by the Communist faction. Only 40 lawmakers voted for it, including the Communists and three unaffiliated MPs who are members of the Party of Socialists, IPN reports.

The head of the Communist Party (PCRM) Vladimir Voronin said they do not recognize the constitutionality of the administration, from the head of state up to the Government. “The PCRM demands that the Leanca Government should be dismissed for arbitrariness, usurpation of power and lie that already became a system and for misleading the Moldovan people,” he stated.

According to Vladimir Voronin, Moldova needs a responsible democratic government that would reflect the position of the majority of people and that is not afraid to allow the people to pronounce in referendums. The Communist leader accused the coalition of promoting an anti-Moldovan and anti-Russian policy. “You make use of exaggerated and criminal lies,” he added.

Before the censure motion was put to the vote, the Premier said that by this fourth motion in the last half a year, the opposition is trying to cause panic in society as to the European integration. Moldova and another five non-EU member states subscribed to the EU’s statement on the restrictive measures imposed on 18 persons from the former administration of Ukraine and these penalties have nothing to do with the sanctions imposed on Russia, as the Communist MPs assert.

The Premier reminded that in 2005, when Moldova was ruled by the PCRM, the country aligned itself with the European Union’s statement on the restrictive measures imposed against Uzbekistan. In 2006, it supported a similar statement against the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and another one against terrorism. In 2007, 2008 and 2009, Moldova also subscribed to such statements and in none of the cases they asserted that the Constitution was violated and no public debates involving civil society were held, as the Communists demand now.