Communist MP Gheorghe Musteata was excluded from the Communists parliamentary faction of PCRM. The decision was made at the meeting of the faction on March 13 and was announced at Parliament sitting on Thursday, March 15. The communist MPs refused to comment on the decision of the faction and the reasons behind it. The excluded MP refused to offer explanations saying that it is “an internal issue of the faction”. Gheorghe Musteata entered the Parliament being the 62nd on the list of the Party. He is the chief secretary of the Soldanesti Raion Committee of the CPRM. After the exclusion of Musteata, the communist faction has 55 members.