PLDM and PCRM deny having formed an alliance

The Communist Party (PCRM) and the Liberal Democratic Party (PLDM) deny the assertions that they have made an alliance, while the lawmakers of the Liberal Party (PL) and the Democratic Party (PDM) wonder who will now form the parliamentary majority. This happens after the PLDM withdrew from the agreement on the formation of the Alliance for European Integration (AEI) and adopted a number of bills with the help of Communists’ votes in the first sitting of the Parliament’s spring-summer session, Info-Prim Neo reports. After the February 15 sitting, the Liberal and Democratic MPs asked who will form the parliamentary majority. The lawmakers of the PL and PDM left the sitting before it ended and when they saw that the Lib-Dems and the Communists continued to vote together started to say that the PCRM and PLDM formed the majority. At the same time, both the PCRM and the PLDM said they do not intend to form a coalition, but only passed together bills that are in the country’s interests. “We do not make an alliance. The Communists will always vote for the bills needed by the country,” the Communists’ leader Vladimir Voronin said after the meeting. The head of the Liberal-Democratic faction Valeriu Strelet told the journalists that they only voted for their own legislative initiatives and any of their colleagues in Parliament can join them in adopting these bills. However, the Liberal leader Mihai Ghimpu said that namely the chairman of the PLDM Vlad Filat destroyed the AEI and Moldova’s problem is namely the Liberal-Democrat, not Vlad Plahotniuc as the Premier asserted. Head of Parliament Marian Lupu said that his party will hold a meeting and will decide how to act further. He couldn’t say if the AEI may be revived. On February 13, the PLDM withdrew from the AEI agreement and announced that they want to negotiate a new agreement. In the February 15 sitting of the legislature, the post of First Deputy Speaker held by the PDM’s first deputy chairman Vlad Plahotniuc was liquidated by the votes of the Lib-Dems and the Communists. Furthermore, a vote of no confidence was given to him. Vlad Plahotniuc tendered his resignation and became an ordinary MP.