Prime Minister Pavel Filip will not grant the President’s request to recall Moldova’s Ambassador in Bucharest Mihai Gribincea, IPN reports.

The Government’s press service said Pavel Filip on January 16 received the President’s application, but he will not satisfy this request.

President Igor Dodon requested to recall the ambassador for the reason that he made impertinent comments that are incompatible with his status of diplomat. He made reference to a press report according to which Mihai Gribincea said Igor Dodon’s decree to withdraw the Moldovan nationality of former Romanian President Traian Basescu could be declared unconstitutional.