Citizens came out to protest in front of the Presidential Palace. They chanted against the current government and President Maia Sandu.

Although a protest without party symbols was announced, the demonstration was organized on the initiative of the Party of Socialists. The PSRM also invited representatives of other parties to join the demonstration, but no other parties were observed at the protest.

The demonstrators chanted "down with Maia Sandu", "down with the PAS", "shame" and demanded that Maia Sandu should quit as President.

"We ask for a snap presidential election simultaneously with the parliamentary elections. Today we came due to the pain in our souls for our people. I know that everyone is concerned about the charges, prices, pensions, but we have to understand one thing very clearly. There will be no lower charges, there will be no higher salaries and pensions until we drive all of them away from this building and also from that building - all of those that are yellow," the Socialist leader Igor Dodon said in front of the crowd.

The politician announced that the next protest will be mounted in March.

Asked for a reaction to Saturday's demonstration, representatives of the presidential institution told IPN that the President’s Office does not comment on political events.

In a reaction to IPN, adviser to the Speaker of Parliament Aurica Jardan said that "today Moldova is still vulnerable to crises because the Socialists bequeathed a poor country, dependent on one source of energy, where the head of state went as a vassal to Moscow."

"People's protests must be against the inaction of the previous governments, which did not take care of the country's energy security. What we are doing is to fix what they destroyed and to finally build a resilient state, capable of taking care of its citizens," pointed out Aurica Jardan.