Political pundit Arcadie Barbarosie thinks that the negotiations on coalition formation are at a stalemate either because the parties cannot share the top offices and seats among themselves or because they can't find a format to involve the Party of Communists in the process of governance. The expert told IPN that the lack of transparency only leads to further speculation about the negotiations.
Barbarosie remarked that the politicians didn't react to civil society's call for a responsible government. “Who knows, perhaps on January 12 we'll have a big surprise and they'll show us the Cabinet of Ministers, the parliamentary majority, the coalition agreement”, he said.
The expert admits that he didn't expect the politicians to show too much transparency regarding the distribution of offices, but he expected them to say more at least about the government priorities.
“Personally, I think that they haven't reached an agreement regarding the top three positions in the state and don't have a solution to share them. It's obvious that the Liberal Democratic Party wants the Prime Minister's seat, while the Democratic Party wants the Speaker's office. In this case, it's likely that the Liberal Party wants some guarantees regarding the presidential office. However, no one can offer such guarantees”, explained Barbarosie. He suggested the parties to think about how they would share the offices if four parties were involved.
Barbarosie thinks that the scenario of adding PCRM to the mix also hinders the negotiations. “The difficulties are probably the parties themselves. They don't want to blame, for example, the Liberals or the Democrats and probably that's why they don't reveal anything about the negotiations”, he said.
The leaders of PLDM, PDM and PL announced on December 4 that they started the talks to form a pro-European parliamentary majority.
