It's been one week since the beginning of negotiations for the formation of a pro-European parliamentary majority. Politicians have offered little information and all the meetings have taken place away from the press.
The Liberal Democratic Party, the Democratic Party and the Liberal Party announced on December 4, via separate press releases, that they agreed on the creation of task groups of experts to work on the coalition agreement and the governament program for the next four years.
The next day, the three parties issued a joint statement announcing that the first meeting of the group of experts took place and the participants established the agenda, priorities and work program for the upcoming meetings.
Dorin Chirtoaca, first vice president of the Liberal Party and one of the party's negotiators, promised that the press would learn about the unfolding of negotiations not only via press releases. He told reporters that the three parties talked about the content of the coalition agreement, about the election of the president in 2016, when Nicolae Timofti's term expires, about legislative priorities and how to ensure a balance between political parties, as well as about the implementation of the EU Association Agreement.
Dorin Chirtoaca added that negotiations were yet to discuss the distribution of offices. He didn't provide any information about the time when the meetings take place and only said that the process would take a while.
On December 10, PL announced that the created task group continued to work on the development of the agreement for the creation of a new parliamentary majority. The participants discussed the draft of the document and agreed to continue to work on proposals regarding the policy directions and fields to be included as priorities of the new government program. Party representatives exchanged opinions about how to prevent the politicization of institutions under parliamentary supervision. They also agreed to develop legislative priorities for the beginning of the parliamentary session during the group's next meeting.
Following the November 30 elections, the three parties combined have 55 MPs in the 101-seat Parliament.