The acting Premier’s and a number of ministers’ refusal to hold the posts on an interim basis after December 31 looks like diversion against the state and its citizens, said PAS MP Sergiu Litvinenco, who believes that such a decision during a pandemic and an economic crisis is an act of revenge against the own people, IPN reports.

“Their gesture is more serious if considering the fact that the post of Prime Minister or of minister, under an inappropriate law in force, can be held on an interim basis only by the ministers who stay. So, if we admit that all the ministers leave and only the minister of defense stays, this should serve as acting Prime Minister and also as acting minister of health, minister of finance, minister of economy, minister of justice, etc.” the MP explained on Facebook.

According to him, such a gesture is an attempt by ex-President Igor Dodon to develop the idea that “Maia Sandu is in power since December 24”. “Their strategy for shifting responsibility will not work, especially because now their actions represent disrespect for the people of this country. That’s why they will be punished even harsher in the next parliamentary elections,” wrote Sergiu Litvinenco.

On December 24, after a meeting with President Maia Sandu, Ion Chicu posted on Facebook that he will hold the post of Prime Minister on an interim basis until December 31. By the same date, the posts of minister of health, labor and social protection, minister of finance and minister of economy and infrastructure will be held by Viorica Dumbrăveanu, Serghei Pușcuța and, respectively, Anatol Usatyi also on an interim basis.

The Moldovan legislation does not provide that the Prime Minister and the ministers are obliged to serve on an interim basis after the Government resigns, until a new Cabinet is formed. In the last meeting before resigning, the Cabinet approved the resignations tendered by a number of secretaries of state who served at ministries.