Prime Minister Valeriu Strelet considers the growing protest spirits and atmosphere of this hot autumn must be eased off. In a press briefing, the Premier said the government is to work out a roadmap with the subsequent steps and the time limit for taking them. The dismissals will be opportune if the planned measures are not implemented, IPN reports.

“I think we can discuss a plan of action based on two steps. At the beginning, we should agree what the government is to do in the short and medium-term, with deadlines and exact content of the actions. If the government does not honor its commitments, we are ready to discuss aspects of the dismissal of senior state bodies,” said Valeriu Strelet.

“I hope our colleagues from Parliament, and the Presidential Office, will accept to formulate a common appeal to the pro-European protesters, who are sincere and want this country to prosper. I hope we will meet in a particular format to agree the roadmap so as to ease the tense atmosphere and to create the conditions needed for developing Moldova.”

On October 4, the Civic Platform “Dignity and Truth” staged a large-scale protest in the Great National Assembly Square of Chisinau, entitled the Revolution of White Chrysanthemums. Members of the Platform announced they will create an initiative group for organizing a constitutional referendum on the election of the head of state by the people.

Protesters’ leaders called on the population to refuse to pay the bills for electric power as a recent analysis showed that the people in Moldova pay monthly by US$15 million more than necessary for electricity.

In a press briefing on October 4, the leader of the Party of Socialists Igor Dodon said they prepared a number of draft decisions, including a draft censure motion against the Strelet Government a proposal to initiate the procedure for dismissing the head of state.