PCRM is ready to support in Parliament Alliance's initiative on direct election of President

The Communists Party (PCRM) is willing to vote in favor of the Alliance for European Integration's initiative on direct election of the head of state. “In order to quickly unlock the political crisis and call early elections, the PCRM is ready to back in Parliament the legislative initiative allowing for the direct election of the President. This will be the consensus expected by the whole Moldovan society,” the leader of the PCRM Vladimir Voronin told a press briefing on June 4, Info-Prim Neo reports. The former President of Moldova said the PCRM's position was determined by the Council of Europe's support for the Alliance's proposal to modify the Constitution by referendum. “Yesterday, we all saw how the representatives of the Council of Europe changed openly their own stance. It is not within the PCRM's competence to look for the causes of such a turn of events and why the European institutions renounced their own recommendations,” Vladimir Voronin said. He also said that in the created situation, the Communists Party suggests not spending money and time on organizing a referendum to amend Article 78 of the Constitution. Thus, the PCRM is ready to support in Parliament the Alliance's initiative on direct election of the President. Vladimir Voronin informed that the PCRM canceled the protests scheduled for the next weeks and is waiting for a prompt answer from the Alliance. “The decision about the PCRM's return to the parliamentary sittings will be taken after the party receives guarantees that the Parliament will be dissolved and early elections will be called,” the former head of state said. Until now, the PCRM pleaded for the election of the President in Parliament by three rounds of voting.