Political commentator  Corneliu Ciurea said the Democratic Party didn’t enter a crisis after Vlad Plahotniuc decided to withdraw from the party’s leadership. The change in the political situation in Moldova – the step back taken by the PDM, the strategic withdrawal looking like a political defeat – determined this succession of events, IPN reports.

“The PDM didn’t manage to keep the initially announced positions to support and insist on the observance of the Constitutional Court’s decision concerning the dissolution of Parliament. It had thus to withdraw to the opposition with a leader exposed to multiple dangers,” Corneliu Ciurea stated in the program “Fabrika” on Publika TV channel.

According to him, Vlad Plahotniuc’s decision seems to be a correct decision aimed at giving the PDM the chance to re-set itself and become the only pro-European opposition party.

Sociologist Ian Lisnevscki said that after the PDM announced it moves to the opposition, it was clear that the party will change its strategy. The argued opposition strategy is slightly ‘different’. In such conditions, the strategy had to be changed. Most of the attacks on the PDM came through the agency of the party’s leader.

He noted that in such circumstances, the Bloc ACUM could have discussions with the PDM so as to start the struggle against the Party of Socialists.

On June 24, Vlad Plahotniuc vacated the post of president of the Democratic Party. He wrote on Facebook that he suggested his party mates to organize the PDM’s congress as soon as possible so as to choose a new leadership and to approve a new political program. Vlad Plahotniuc also wrote that he will not run for any post in the party at this congress.