Liberal Party leader Mihai Ghimpu has offered some insider details about how the state's top offices will be distributed within the prospective coalition.
Speaking at “In Profunzime” talk-show on ProTV, Ghimpu said that the party with the biggest number of votes will get one of the three top jobs: President, Prime Minister or Speaker. After that, the three parties will share the cabinet portfolios – initially each of them is allowed to choose just one. “Once these three posts are agreed upon, we'll want to clarify the mechanisms so as to make these institutions functional”, he said.
Ghimpu reiterated his party's position on the need to renounce the country's neutrality status and join NATO, adding that he will try to reach consensus with the coalition partners on this issue. “Obviously we should wait a little, people are not ready to accept this yet. It's paradoxical, while 80 percent of the people say they can't sleep because they are anxious about the cannons in Donbas, only 30 percent are in favor of joining NATO. We should blame the Soviet education that depicted the North Atlantic bloc as a warlike organization. We need to raise awareness that NATO means in fact peace and security”, said Ghimpu.
Ghimpu went on to criticize President Nicolae Timofti for requesting the deferral of the Liberals' constitutional action challenging the country's neutrality status. “Nicolae Timofti shouldn't have done this. The Constitutional Court would have pronounced its ruling, and we would have followed it”.
At the same time, Mihai Ghimpu said he was skeptical about Moldova's prospects of acquiring EU membership in the foreseeable future. “I don't think Moldova will become a member during the ongoing term of the Romanian President Klaus Iohannis. We have a lot of problems here and the EU won't accept us just like that.”
