{"id":447686,"date":"2019-11-13T19:57:25","date_gmt":"2019-11-13T19:57:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/?p=447686"},"modified":"2019-11-14T19:41:11","modified_gmt":"2019-11-14T19:41:11","slug":"a-new-option-for-moldovan-politics-the-minority-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/a-new-option-for-moldovan-politics-the-minority-government\/","title":{"rendered":"A new option for Moldovan politics? The minority government"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 3<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><p>The Socialist Party of the Republic of Moldova (PSRM) announced today its support for the President&#8217;s initiative to establish a <strong>minority government<\/strong>, consisted of apolitical and technocratic people. <span style=\"color: #000080\"><em>&#8220;In this regard, we will enter into a dialogue with all the deputies and with all the parliamentary factions in order to identify the optimal formula for investing a technocratic Government,&#8221;<\/em><\/span> is mentioned in an official <a href=\"http:\/\/socialistii.md\/declaratie-fractiunea-psrm-trece-la-formarea-unui-nou-guvern-tehnocrat\/\">statement<\/a> of PSRM.<\/p>\n<p>President Igor Dodon had consultation meetings with all parliamentary factions representatives, but no consensus was reached between them. <strong><em>&#8220;Our proposal is very clear: Maia Sandu &#8211; prime minister, the Cabinet of Ministers and Government&#8217;s agenda &#8211; stays the same. We do not accept any other candidate,\u201d<\/em><\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.privesc.eu\/arhiva\/89199\/Declaratia-reprezentantilor-Blocului-ACUM-dupa-intrevederea-cu-Presedintele-Republicii-Moldova--Igor-Dodon\">declared<\/a> Igor Grosu, the representative of the political bloc ACUM after meeting the President.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, the remaining two parliamentary factions declared they will form no government coalition either, the Democratic Party of Moldova (DPM)\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.privesc.eu\/arhiva\/89200\/Declaratia-reprezentantilor-PDM-dupa-intrevederea-cu-Presedintele-Republicii-Moldova--Igor-Dodon\">stating<\/a>\u00a0that it&#8217;s not prepared, while the \u0218or Party <a href=\"https:\/\/www.privesc.eu\/arhiva\/89201\/Declaratia-reprezentantilor-Partidului-SOR-dupa-intrevederea-cu-Presedintele-Republicii-Moldova--Igor-Dodon\">saying<\/a> it won&#8217;t participate in the current <em>&#8220;simulation games&#8221;<\/em>.<\/p>\n<h4>Mutual accusations<\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080\"><em>&#8220;Today, we discovered the unwillingness of the colleagues from the political bloc ACUM to maintain the governing coalition. They categorically rejected the proposal to establish a new government, following the same principles, with the same vision of government, but with new people, elected via consensus. The proposal of ACUM to establish a similar government to the one that was dismissed, with the same prime minister, is ridiculous. It denotes political infantilism and lack of constructive approach. You can&#8217;t make the same mistakes twice,&#8221;<\/em><\/span>\u00a0according to the PSRM statement.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We cannot reset the Government with exactly the same people who led to the dismissal of the previous one.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<hr \/>\n<p>On the other hand, Maia Sandu, interim Prime Minister of Moldova, <a href=\"https:\/\/moldova.europalibera.org\/a\/maia-sandu-noi-nu-vrem-s%C4%83-fim-folosi%C8%9Bi-%C3%AEn-calitate-de-fa%C8%9Bad%C4%83-frumoas%C4%83-%C3%AEn-spatele-c%C4%83reia-se-%C3%AEnt%C3%A2mpl%C4%83-lucruri-ur%C3%A2te-(video)\/30269690.html\">said<\/a> for RFE\/RL that, when she assumed the responsibility for amending the Law on the Prosecutor&#8217;s Office, she did not imagine <em>&#8220;that Igor Dodon would be so irresponsible as to descent the country into chaos, before the 2020 budget approval and before the country obtained additional external financing instalments for the budget&#8221;<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Maia Sandu declared that the de-oligarchisation cannot continue without the reform of the General Prosecutor&#8217;s Office, which did not have political support.<br \/>\n<em>&#8220;We focused on the appointment of an independent General Prosecutor because it was clear that we would not be able to go on with the rest of the reforms related to the Supreme Court of Justice or the cleansing of judiciary,&#8221;<\/em>\u00a0explained Sandu.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I was aware that Igor Dodon is afraid of an independent prosecutor and I was aware that they want to stop the implementation of justice reform at this stage or at a later one.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>&#8220;The so-called technocratic government, which has no reason to be technocratic, will be an interests-sharing government between PSRM and DPM. That was what upset PSRM: we did not allow them to get involved in ministries,\u00a0 we did not allow them to do their schemes or take over those of the DPM (previous government),\u201d<\/em> stated Sandu in the interview.<\/p>\n<h4>No other coalition<\/h4>\n<p>The PSRM representatives stated\u00a0that it will not form any coalitions with other parliamentary factions, the only long-term coalition that was possible was between PSRM and ACUM. President Dodon <a href=\"https:\/\/www.privesc.eu\/arhiva\/89202\/Declaratiile-Presedintelui-Republicii-Moldova--Igor-Dodon\">announced<\/a> he saw\u00a0<em>&#8220;no chance for forming a majority government.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>At the same time, he claims that he does not want snap elections, so if a consensus is not reached, he would submit a candidate to the position of prime minister. Beside the option of creating a majority government, the president took into consideration the option of forming a technocratic government. <span style=\"color: #000080\"><em>&#8220;Therefore, starting from today we announce that the PSRM faction is moving towards voting a new Government, with the participation of the Presidency and other parliamentary factions,&#8221;<\/em><\/span> socialists declared.<\/p>\n<h4>Justice reform<\/h4>\n<p>In the given circumstances, the future Minister of Justice should announce a new contest for selecting a Prosecutor General, or return to the results of the contest cancelled by the ex-Minister of Justice Olesea Stamate, according to President Dodon.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;The justice reform will be further implemented. No matter what formula will be reached, majority or minority government, I will insist that all recommendations of the Venice Commission would be taken into account and that the justice reform would be implemented exactly as society expects,&#8221;<\/em> said President Dodon.<\/p>\n<h4>A new prime minister?<\/h4>\n<p>Even though the term of 90 days is long enough, President Dodon already submitted a candidacy for the position of prime minister.\u00a0 Surprisingly (or not), the newly proposed candidate\u00a0is <strong>Ion Chicu<\/strong>, adviser in the legal field and institutional relations, representing the President of the Republic of Moldova in relations with the Parliament and the Government, former Minister of Finance in the Democratic Government led by Pavel Filip.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993300\">Igor Dodon has already signed the presidential decree.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;He is a professional, technocratic person, who was not part of any party and could face any challenges. I submitted this application hoping that a professional candidate will be voted,\u201d<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.privesc.eu\/arhiva\/89204\/Briefing-sustinut-de-Presedintele-Republicii-Moldova--Igor-Dodon\">argued<\/a> the president.<\/p>\n<p>The head of state warns the MPs that they must take the risk of snap elections, if they do not vote for the candidacy of Ion Chicu: <em>\u201cYou will have to assume the expenses and the risks related to snap elections,\u201d<\/em> he claimed during his second press conference held today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 3<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span>The Socialist Party of the Republic of Moldova (PSRM) announced today its support for the President&#8217;s initiative to establish a minority government, consisted of apolitical and technocratic people. &#8220;In this regard, we will enter into a dialogue with all the deputies and with all the parliamentary factions in order to identify the optimal formula for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":447687,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,56],"tags":[30,80,35,457,27,233,75,81],"class_list":["post-447686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","category-reportaje","tag-dodon","tag-government","tag-important","tag-minority","tag-moldova","tag-parliament","tag-politics","tag-psrm"],"content_social_share":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 3<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><p>The Socialist Party of the Republic of Moldova (PSRM) announced today its support for the President&#8217;s initiative to establish a <strong>minority government<\/strong>, consisted of apolitical and technocratic people. <span style=\"color: #000080\"><em>&#8220;In this regard, we will enter into a dialogue with all the deputies and with all the parliamentary factions in order to identify the optimal formula for investing a technocratic Government,&#8221;<\/em><\/span> is mentioned in an official <a href=\"http:\/\/socialistii.md\/declaratie-fractiunea-psrm-trece-la-formarea-unui-nou-guvern-tehnocrat\/\">statement<\/a> of PSRM.<\/p>\n<p>President Igor Dodon had consultation meetings with all parliamentary factions representatives, but no consensus was reached between them. <strong><em>&#8220;Our proposal is very clear: Maia Sandu &#8211; prime minister, the Cabinet of Ministers and Government&#8217;s agenda &#8211; stays the same. We do not accept any other candidate,\u201d<\/em><\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.privesc.eu\/arhiva\/89199\/Declaratia-reprezentantilor-Blocului-ACUM-dupa-intrevederea-cu-Presedintele-Republicii-Moldova--Igor-Dodon\">declared<\/a> Igor Grosu, the representative of the political bloc ACUM after meeting the President.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, the remaining two parliamentary factions declared they will form no government coalition either, the Democratic Party of Moldova (DPM)\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.privesc.eu\/arhiva\/89200\/Declaratia-reprezentantilor-PDM-dupa-intrevederea-cu-Presedintele-Republicii-Moldova--Igor-Dodon\">stating<\/a>\u00a0that it&#8217;s not prepared, while the \u0218or Party <a href=\"https:\/\/www.privesc.eu\/arhiva\/89201\/Declaratia-reprezentantilor-Partidului-SOR-dupa-intrevederea-cu-Presedintele-Republicii-Moldova--Igor-Dodon\">saying<\/a> it won&#8217;t participate in the current <em>&#8220;simulation games&#8221;<\/em>.<\/p>\n<h4>Mutual accusations<\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080\"><em>&#8220;Today, we discovered the unwillingness of the colleagues from the political bloc ACUM to maintain the governing coalition. They categorically rejected the proposal to establish a new government, following the same principles, with the same vision of government, but with new people, elected via consensus. The proposal of ACUM to establish a similar government to the one that was dismissed, with the same prime minister, is ridiculous. It denotes political infantilism and lack of constructive approach. You can&#8217;t make the same mistakes twice,&#8221;<\/em><\/span>\u00a0according to the PSRM statement.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We cannot reset the Government with exactly the same people who led to the dismissal of the previous one.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<hr \/>\n<p>On the other hand, Maia Sandu, interim Prime Minister of Moldova, <a href=\"https:\/\/moldova.europalibera.org\/a\/maia-sandu-noi-nu-vrem-s%C4%83-fim-folosi%C8%9Bi-%C3%AEn-calitate-de-fa%C8%9Bad%C4%83-frumoas%C4%83-%C3%AEn-spatele-c%C4%83reia-se-%C3%AEnt%C3%A2mpl%C4%83-lucruri-ur%C3%A2te-(video)\/30269690.html\">said<\/a> for RFE\/RL that, when she assumed the responsibility for amending the Law on the Prosecutor&#8217;s Office, she did not imagine <em>&#8220;that Igor Dodon would be so irresponsible as to descent the country into chaos, before the 2020 budget approval and before the country obtained additional external financing instalments for the budget&#8221;<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Maia Sandu declared that the de-oligarchisation cannot continue without the reform of the General Prosecutor&#8217;s Office, which did not have political support.<br \/>\n<em>&#8220;We focused on the appointment of an independent General Prosecutor because it was clear that we would not be able to go on with the rest of the reforms related to the Supreme Court of Justice or the cleansing of judiciary,&#8221;<\/em>\u00a0explained Sandu.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I was aware that Igor Dodon is afraid of an independent prosecutor and I was aware that they want to stop the implementation of justice reform at this stage or at a later one.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>&#8220;The so-called technocratic government, which has no reason to be technocratic, will be an interests-sharing government between PSRM and DPM. That was what upset PSRM: we did not allow them to get involved in ministries,\u00a0 we did not allow them to do their schemes or take over those of the DPM (previous government),\u201d<\/em> stated Sandu in the interview.<\/p>\n<h4>No other coalition<\/h4>\n<p>The PSRM representatives stated\u00a0that it will not form any coalitions with other parliamentary factions, the only long-term coalition that was possible was between PSRM and ACUM. President Dodon <a href=\"https:\/\/www.privesc.eu\/arhiva\/89202\/Declaratiile-Presedintelui-Republicii-Moldova--Igor-Dodon\">announced<\/a> he saw\u00a0<em>&#8220;no chance for forming a majority government.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>At the same time, he claims that he does not want snap elections, so if a consensus is not reached, he would submit a candidate to the position of prime minister. Beside the option of creating a majority government, the president took into consideration the option of forming a technocratic government. <span style=\"color: #000080\"><em>&#8220;Therefore, starting from today we announce that the PSRM faction is moving towards voting a new Government, with the participation of the Presidency and other parliamentary factions,&#8221;<\/em><\/span> socialists declared.<\/p>\n<h4>Justice reform<\/h4>\n<p>In the given circumstances, the future Minister of Justice should announce a new contest for selecting a Prosecutor General, or return to the results of the contest cancelled by the ex-Minister of Justice Olesea Stamate, according to President Dodon.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;The justice reform will be further implemented. No matter what formula will be reached, majority or minority government, I will insist that all recommendations of the Venice Commission would be taken into account and that the justice reform would be implemented exactly as society expects,&#8221;<\/em> said President Dodon.<\/p>\n<h4>A new prime minister?<\/h4>\n<p>Even though the term of 90 days is long enough, President Dodon already submitted a candidacy for the position of prime minister.\u00a0 Surprisingly (or not), the newly proposed candidate\u00a0is <strong>Ion Chicu<\/strong>, adviser in the legal field and institutional relations, representing the President of the Republic of Moldova in relations with the Parliament and the Government, former Minister of Finance in the Democratic Government led by Pavel Filip.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993300\">Igor Dodon has already signed the presidential decree.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;He is a professional, technocratic person, who was not part of any party and could face any challenges. 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