The leader of the parliamentary group of the Party of Socialists Corneliu Furculiță said Mariana Durleșteanu is ready to further contend for premiership. But if other candidates are proposed in Parliament, the Socialists are ready to discuss them, IPN reports.

“Missis Durleșteanu is ready to continue the mission she undertook consciously – to form a professional functional government and to work for the benefit of the country and the citizens,” the MP stated in a special edition on NTV Moldova channel. According to him, the parliamentary groups can suggest other candidates or can support Mariana Durleșteanu.

“We are ready to discuss other candidates. These are only discussions, but we want concrete deeds. I refer to Andrei Năstase. He should come and say that their group proposes him and that a particular number of persons signed in favor of him and they invite others to also sign,” said Corneliu Furculiță.

He also said that the PSRM held a new round of consultations with all the parliamentary groups. “We today held discussions with almost all the political forces that are represented in Parliament. It was rather a discussion to present the positions, to learn the opinions of each group and we will then discuss the issue inside the parties and will return to discussions,” noted the MP.

On February 11, Natalia Gavrilița, the candidate designated by President Maia Sandu for Prime Minister, didn’t obtain any vote in Parliament and the attempt to vote in the Gavrilița Government thus failed. In the same Parliament sitting, the Socialists announced the formation of a parliamentary majority that proposed ex-minister of finance Mariana Durleșteanu for Premier. Also then, Maia Sandu nominated Natalia Gavrilița as Prime Minister the second time. The Constitutional Court declared this presidential decree unconstitutional. Later, President Sandu said the citizens will be those who will decide their future at snap elections or at a referendum as they hold the power in the state.