The lawmakers were obliged to attend the special sitting of Parliament, where they were to consider giving a vote of confidence to the Sturza Government, as they were to express their position by vote, not by absence. Such a statement was made in the program “Place for Dialogue” on Radio Moldova station, IPN reports.

The head of the public association “Justice and Democracy” Pavel Midrigan expressed his indignation at the MPs’ nonattendance of the special siting. “They were elected not to do so. Their salaries should be cut because they were absent from the sitting,” he stated.

Former Christian-Democratic MP Stefan Secareanu also considers the MPs should have attended the sitting. “I don’t understand why they had to make this show when everyone knew that the candidate for premiership will not be voted in. They should have allowed Sturza to say what he had to say and then should have decided. The people are sick and tired of all the scenarios. We urgently need a Government,” he said.

Ion Dron, chairman of the Center for Initiatives and Public Authorities Monitoring, accused Ion Sturza of what happened. “It wasn’t right not to come to the sitting, but it always happens so when we make an icon of a politician. I don’t understand what Ion Sturza hoped for when he named the lawmakers bandits and criticized persons. Instead of calming things down, Sturza stirred them up even more. Society got into a panic after Sturza declared that the pensions and salaries will be paid with delay from February. A candidate for Prime Minister shouldn’t have stated something like this,” noted the jurist.