Snap parliamentary elections are due to take place on September 6, 2019. A decree to this effect was signed on June 9 by Prime Minister Pavel Filip, who, according to the Constitutional Court’s opinion, holds office of President on an interim basis, IPN reports.

In a press briefing, Pavel Filip said the Constitutional Court found that the President refused to fulfill his constitutional duties and to call snap elections, violating thus the Constitution. Therefore, Igor Dodon was suspended from office. “It is not for the first time and for Igor Dodon it has probably become a tradition to violate the Constitution,” stated the Prime Minister

After signing the decree, Pavel Filip said that September 6 allows for a reasonable timeframe so that everyone could prepare for elections. There is no other solution, according to him, after the crisis triggered by the Party of Socialists and the ACUM Bloc and given the currently discredited political class.

Pavel Filip, who is also the first vice president of the Democratic Party, said the party he represents proposed establishing a partnership that would ensure the people’s welfare, but the parties chose to struggle for positions. At the moment the power is not held by a political party, but belongs to the citizens and the elections are an instrument in this regard. The parties should appear before the people for judgment.

The Prime Minister said that no one should take the power by force or maintain it by force. He noted he was going to meet citizens at the demonstration set to take place in the Great National Assembly Square.

He urged calmness, saying tomorrow is an usual workday.