Nobody excluded the Liberal Party (PL) from governance and the fact that this party didn’t receive what it wanted does not mean exclusion, but inability to negotiate and find a solution, considers the head of the ULIM Department of History and International Relations Mihai Cernencu. He stated for IPN that the PL’s announcement that it will take part in governance, alongside the PLDM and PDM, if the compromise solutions reached in the presence of the Europeans partners are obeyed can be considered as the beginning of the party’s election campaign for the local elections, but also as its good intention.
“The result is the art of negotiations. A zero result means that the negotiations were of a rather poor quality. It will be a miracle if an authentic Government is formed with a majority in Parliament, even if not a comfortable one, because it is very dangerous to do painful reforms with a minority government,” stated Mihai Cernencu.
According to him, the problem resides in the fact that the three pro-European parties were unable to reach a compromise solution. “On the one hand, the Liberals accuse the PLDM and PDM of forming an alliance with the PCRM. But what should these have done – wait for the Liberals after months of unclear negotiations? On the other hand, the PL is right when it says that the Democratic Party was rigid and didn’t want to concede. If one party didn’t want to concede, they should have identified another formula,” said Mihai Cernencu, noting that the Liberals on the Chisinau Municipal Council vote decisions in concert with the Communists and they can do the same in Parliament.
He also said that the negotiators could not reach a compromise as regards Dorin Chirtoaca’s candidacy for the mayoralty of Chisinau, but the Liberals will not manage to win the third term of mayor without the support of their colleagues from the PLDM and PDM. The PL wants Dorin Chirtoaca to be mayor in the capital city because he is the party’s driving force.
The PL’s National Council decided that the party will take part in governance, alongside the Liberal Democratic Party and the Democratic Party, if the conditions and compromise solutions reached in the presence of the European partners are respected. Last Friday, the PLDM and PDM signed an agreement on the formation of the Alliance for a European Moldova. The three pro-European parties could not reach a consensus after holding negotiations in trilateral format during almost two months.
