The Socialist MPs said that in the consultations, they insistently asked President Maia Sandu to support a candidate for Prime Minister proposed by Parliament. They reiterated their position that there is a majority in Parliament and this fielded a candidate for premiership, Vladimir Golovatiuc, who, according to them, is a professional able to take the country out of the crisis, IPN reports.

MP Vlad Batrîncea said that solutions can be identified only by dialogue and by common consent with the state institutions – Parliament and the presidential administration – while unilateral decisions are not accepted. They weren’t informed about the President’s position and the subsequent actions of Maia Sandu.

According to Vlad Batrîncea, the legal and constitutional provisions say the exclusive power to invest a government, to approve a government program belongs to Parliament, while the role of the President is to ensure a balance, a dialogue between the state institutions. The Socialists reiterated that the President’s role is to identify political support for a Government or a candidate for Prime Minister. The consultations held earlier were mimicked as the President wasn’t preoccupied with the identification of such support.

President Maia Sandu on March 26 invited the parliamentary groups to consultations after a quorum at the March 25 sitting of Parliament was not present and the government program and the Cabinet proposed by candidate for Prime Minister Igor Grosu could not be considered. This was the second attempt to vote in a Government with full powers, after the first attempt of February 11 also failed.