MP of the Bloc ACUM Sergiu Litvinenko said that if the Party of Socialists insists on the formation of a coalition with ACUM, it will be clear that it wants snap elections. Another version is that such behavior can take the PSRM to a coalition with the PDM. The issue was discussed in the program “Expertise hour” on Jurnal TV channel, IPN reports.
The MP reiterated that the bloc ACUM does not want a coalition or an alliance with the PSRM. “Such an alliance is impossible on principle. If the Party of Socialists intends to further insist on an alliance, it will be clear that it wants snap elections, but the snap election would be a present for Vladimir Plahotniuc and the Democratic Party as it’s clear that the PDM will win more seats of MP as a result of snap elections held under the mixed electoral system, with institutions managed by representatives of the oligarchy,” stated Sergiu Litvinenko.
The president of the Association “Voievod” Nicolae Pascaru said society should be “programmed” for an alliance between the PSRM and the Bloc ACUM. From such a coalition, the Socialists stand only to gain. “It would be very well if they form a coalition, but they should leave the political ambitions aside and the Bloc ACUM should go to these talks as the voters will not understand them after snap elections,” he stated.
Public policy expert Ștefan Gligor welcomed the Bloc ACUM’s proposal to form a working group with the PSRM to discuss the common agenda in stages. “I think this is a very mature, necessary and welcome decision, but I wonder why Vlad Batrîncea (e.n. Socialist MP) came with a very trenchant, harsh and not at all polite reaction by which he said they are interested not in working groups, but only in a four-year government coalition,” he stated. According to the expert, the PSRM and ACUM should understand that no minority government and no permanent four-year government based on a government coalition are possible. These are extreme scenarios that exclude each other. “The adoption of a common package of laws by which to reform the state institutions and to restore the rules of the game is what can be obtained in this situation as a result of a mature negotiation process.”
Constitutional law expert Teodor Cârnaț said that from political viewpoint, the Democratic Party and the Party of Socialists are both supported by the center-left voters. In such conditions, if the PDM forms an alliance with the PSRM, the latter will slowly disappear from the political arena. “However, through an alliance with the Bloc ACUM, it will be much easier for the Socialists to recover, to heal the wounds they suffered on February 24 so as to later play for a month or two and to return to the old habits they have displayed since 2016 under the old master, the PDM, and to form a majority for the next three years,” stated the expert.
