The Party of Action and Solidarity (PAS) has nominated ex-Minister of Justice Olesea Stamati as its candidate for the parliamentary by-election to be held in single-member constituency #38 “Hincesti” on March 15. The decision was taken at the last Saturday’s meeting of the PAS National Political Council.

Ambassador Peter Michalko, Head of the European Union Delegation to Moldova maintains that the EU is concerned about the process of implementing the reform of the judiciary in Moldova.

Romania is not sure that the new Cabinet of Ministers of Moldova keeps following the European path, stated Romanian President Klaus Iohannis at the Thursday's meeting with heads of diplomatic missions, accredited in Bucharest.

President of Moldova Igor Dodon will participate in the winter session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe that will take place in Strasbourg on January 27 through 31, and will answer questions.

The Republic of Moldova needs to hold a snap parliamentary election because the incumbent Parliament “is not a reflection of the people’s will”, but is merely the product of the mixed election system imposed on the nation by Vlad Plahotniuc specially for the February 24, 2019 parliamentary election, believes the Party of Action and Solidarity (PAS) Chairperson, ex-Prime Minister Maia Sandu.

The Republic of Moldova’s State Chancellery Office will shortly launch on its website an instrument for monitoring of the governmental Action Plan realization, it was decided at the ordinary working meeting of the Cabinet of Ministers on Wednesday.

The question of annulling the Law on struggle against foreign propaganda in Moldova is within the Parliament’s scope of competence, President Igor Dodon stated on Wednesday, answering journalists’ questions concerning the yesterday’s initiative of the Party of Socialists about that.

The Moldovan Metropolitanate condemned the decision of the Council for Prevention and Elimination of Discrimination and Ensuring the Equality (Equality Council) to remove the crucifix, installed in the hall of the Ministry of the Interior headquarters.

Moldova President Igor Dodon stated to journalists that at the present moment his personal priority is to bring fugitive oligarch Vlad Plahotniuc back home in handcuffs.

Moldova President Igor Dodon has called the inclusion of Vlad Plahotniuc into the United States sanction list “a good and long-awaited signal”.

The political party called Platform “Demnitate si Adevar” [DA, “Dignity and Justice”] has called “all the democratic forces in Moldova to consolidate efforts and nominate a common candidate for the forthcoming presidential election”, due to be held at the end of 2020.

The former leader of the Moldovan Democratic Party, Vlad Plahotniuc, has been included into the United States’ sanction list, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo reported on Twitter on Monday.

Ambassador Peter Michalko, Head of the European Union Delegation to Moldova, reacted to the detention of the Head of the Anticorruption Prosecution Service Viorel Morari, who initiated a number of investigations recently.

President Igor Dodon firmly believes that the incumbent Cabinet of Ministers has all chances for remaining in office until the expiry of the incumbent Parliament’s mandate in 2023, he said on the local television on Thursday night.

Moldova President Igor Dodon stands resolutely against an early parliamentary election, but realizes it will be inevitable in case the Government of Ion Chicu is dismissed, the head of state said in his interview with Radio Free Europe.

Without the external partners' support, Moldova will be not able to implement the judiciary reform, which is "very complicated and contradictory", Moldovan Prime Minister Ion Chicu stated in an interview to the IPN news agency on Tuesday.

This Monday marks 3 years since Igor Dodon’s accession to the presidency of Moldova.

The agreement with Russia on providing US$300-million credit to Moldova may be ratified by the Parliament in February 2020, said President Igor Dodon at a press conference after the Monday’s meeting with Speaker of the Parliament Zinaida Greceanii and Prime Minister Ion Chicu.

The Parliament adopted in a second reading the amendments to the Law on the Superior Council of Magistracy. On Thursday, the document was voted by 51 MPs (of the Moldovan 101-member Parliament), which is the minimal number necessary for adopting the law in the second reading.

Party of Action and Solidarity Chairperson Maia Sandu believes that all right and centrist forces in Moldova should try and nominate one common candidate for the end-2020 presidential election, “and the PAS will spare no effort to put such scenario into life”.