Valeriu Chiveri has resigned from the post of deputy minister of foreign affairs and European integration and will join ex-Premier Iurie Leanca in his new political project. In a message posted on Facebook, Valeriu Chiveri writes that this is a conscious and responsible decision taken after a thorough analysis of the context in which he would have continued work as deputy minister, within a minority government, IPN reports.

“I don’t believe in the capacity of a minority government to promote reforms and I do not believe in the capacity of such a government to implement the Association Agenda with the EU,” wrote Valeriu Chiveri.

The official said that before the new Government was invested, he lived moments of despair and hope. He hoped up to the last moment that the democratic parties will ensure a majority pro-European government, which is very important for Moldova in this moment.

“Regretfully, it didn’t happen so and Moldova was thrown into the embrace of an atypical coalition that does not have the capacity to do the necessary reforms. Therefore, I decided to join the political project that is to be launched by Iurie Leanca as this project can restore the people’s confidence in what governance means and in what a prosperous and modern Moldova, with a European future, means. I’m sure that those who are not indifferent to Moldova’s fate will join us,” wrote the former deputy minister.

The project that Iurie Leanca intends to present next week was also joined by former deputy prime minister Eugen Carpov and ex-director of the Bureau for Diaspora Relations Victor Lutenko.