The co-president of the political bloc ACUM (NOW) Maia Sandu said they want to assume responsibility under a minority Government so as to avoid snap elections. In an interview for Radio Free Europe that is quoted by IPN, the leader of the Party “Action and Solidarity” (PAS) noted a harsh struggle will follow if the bloc’s proposal is not accepted by other members of Parliament and if ACUM does not manage to ensure a minority Government that would change things immediately.
“The solution we suggest is to choose the Speaker of Parliament from among members of the bloc ACUM, to adopt a series of laws that would provide for the freeing of state institutions or at least would trigger this process. And the bloc ACUM comes to assume responsibility under a minority Government so as to avoid snap elections. When we say minority Government, we refer to very concrete things that we could do, namely: to avoid an economic and social crisis; to immediately restore the relations with the foreign partners and to obtain important finances resources that are needed to honor the payments to the citizens,” stated Maia Sandu.
The PAS leader said there enough global experiences when minority governments survived and did important things. In the current impasse, this is an appropriate solution. “We assume all the risks, starting from the disastrous situation left by the Democratic Party when it made commitments for whose fulfilment it does not have money as the 2019 budget is not realistic because at least 2 billion lei of this is expected to come from foreign sources and it has a deficit of 5.7 billion lei. But we should not forget that this government during the past two years didn’t manage to attract any external financing,” noted the politician.
As to the parliamentary groups formed by ACUM, Maia Sandu said the PAS and the Party “Dignity and Truth Platform” are two separate political entities, as they were before the elections when they formed a common bloc. They remained two distinct parties after the elections and will continue as a common bloc. “Nothing changed. This discussion about the number of groups is artificial. You can see in Europe, where there are particular alliance models and groups in Parliament, that the parties anyway do not lose their identity. If we one day discuss the merger of the parties, things will stand differently. Now this discussion about the number of groups is speculative,” stated the politician.
