It was clear from the start that candidate for premiership Ion Sturza will not be voted in because President Nicolae Timofti nominated this without taking into account the opinion of the parliamentary groups, the leader of the Liberal Party Mihai Ghimpu said after the failed special sitting of Parliament, IPN reports.
“Three of the five pro-European groups existing in Parliament were against this candidate and I think the head of state shouldn’t have hurried to sign that decree as we have time to reach a consensus until January 29,” stated the Liberals’ leader.
According to him, the Liberal Party was disappointed because it believed in what the candidate said, namely that he will suggest the best managers of Moldova, who studied abroad and come from outside politics, as candidates for minister. “In fact, he proposed a composition that showed us we will never overcome the economic and political crisis. The Cabinet proposed by Sturza included members and persons close to the PLDM, who together tried to form a new platform of political people in Moldova. The name was new, but the people were old,” said Mihai Ghimpu.
He noted he will try to initiate again discussions with the members of the PDM and the Leanca group so as to form a parliamentary majority. “We hope that this time, those who didn’t want to hear, will hear us and will understand what happened and what the Constitution means and we will succeed. Only three years of mandate remained and I hope that we will manage in the period to do what some prevented us from doing – reforms and good things for the people,” stated the politician.
According to Ghimpu, even if a quorum had been present in Parliament today, the Liberals wouldn’t have voted for the Government proposed by Ion Sturza because they decided so in a meeting of the party’s Political Bureau. “De decided not to vote for this Government because it is far from the people’s interests and far from what the candidate for premiership promised us. He promised a technocratic Government, but suggested a political Cabinet,” said the leader of the PL.
The special sitting of the legislature, where the MPs were to give a vote of confidence to the program and he governmental team proposed by Ion Sturza, didn’t take place because of a lack of quorum.
