Mihai Petrache willing to yield position of Centrist Union's leader to ex-premier Vasile Tarlev

The president of the Centrist Union from Moldova (UCM), Mihai Petrache, is ready to cede his position to the former prime-minister Vasile Tarlev, who is now the chairman of the Producers Association. Petrache says this makes up part of the agreement on inviting Tarlev to join the party. The former premier has not confirmed the information yet, Info-Prim Neo. “I am ready to yield many things, not only the position of the president of the party, in order to make a resilient party,” Petrache told a news conference on Thursday. He says he has been negotiating with Vasile Tarlev since July. According to Petrache, Vasile Tarlev felt uncomfortable during those 7 years as a premier, he was a technocrat in the Communist Government. “Tarlev did not participated in the political process per se. He carried out what he was told to, because the draft laws are neither discussed within the Parliament, they are discussed within the ruling party,” the Centrist Union's leader has said. On the other hand, Mihai Petrache has said UCM has also been negotiating with the Social-Democratic Party, which “proved not to be serious”, but also with the Parliament's President, Marian Lupu. “Vasile Tarlev has been the most stable, and vertical from them all, sticking to his principles,” Petrache stated. He does not rule out the talks before or after the elections with all the opposition parties. The UCM president is confident his party will get past those 6% of votes, which is the electoral threshold. Sources from Vasile Tarlev's secretariat have said he will return to Chisinau on Friday. The Centrist Union from Moldova has over 10,000 members and no representative in the Parliament. It stands for turning Moldova into a presidential country and is against joining Romania.