The MPs of the Party of Socialists and of the For Moldova platform that includes the Shor group will not go to the consultations to which they were invited by President Maia Sandu on March 26, representatives of the two entities announced in the Parliament’s sitting, IPN reports.

“The Socialist parliamentary group was invited to consultations at the Presidential Palace at 3:30pm. I want to inform Missis President Sandu that today we have an ordinary Parliament siting, an agenda that will continue after 3:30pm. That’s why we ask the presidential administration to name another date for consultations,” said the leader of the Socialist parliamentary group Corneliu Furculiță.

“As we see, today the agenda is full of items that were already put off for several times. We think that the citizens expect us to work on concrete actions. Given that the platform For Moldova and the group of the Shor Party reaffirmed our plans and the position that we have a majority in Parliament and our own candidate for Prime Minister, we believe these consultations can be useless or they should be transferred to another date when it is not a working day for the MPs,” stated the secretary of the Shor group Marina Tauber.

She proposed that the President should be invited to Parliament if more consultations are needed. “We inform that at 1pm, we will not be ready to go to these consultations. If they are held on another day or in other circumstances, we, as usual, will accept this invitation,” stated the MP.

President Maia Sandu scheduled consultations with the parliamentary groups for March 26 after the government program and team of the candidate for Prime Minister Igor Grosu could not be discussed in the March 25 sitting of the legislative body owing to the absence of a quorum. This was the second attempt to vote in a Government with full powers, after the first attempt of February 11 also failed. An outgoing executive has governed the Republic of Moldova for three months already.