President Igor Dodon says the Party of Socialists can let the ACUM bloc have the prime ministerial post but not of the Parliament Speaker’s.

“Unlike Igor Dodon, Andrei Nastase has never regarded high governmental posts as a goal in itself”, said “Demnitate si Adevar” [DA, “Dignity and Justice”] Party Deputy Chairman Alexander Slusari, commenting on the President’s words that “Nastase has never dreamed about the post of a Speaker”.

MP Iurie Renita of the political bloc ACUM offered a supposition that DP deputies may well have sacrificed their March salaries by order from “the palace in Armeneasca Street [i.e. from the Democratic Party Headquarters]”.

The Members of the Moldovan Parliament representing the Democratic Party have decided to sacrifice their March salaries for charitable purposes, the DP Faction Chairman, incumbent Prime Minister of Moldova Pavel Filip wrote on his Facebook page.

On Wednesday, the leaders of the political bloc ACUM, Maya Sandu and Andrei Nastase, held separate meetings with the United States Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Republic of Moldova, Dereck Hogan, with the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the Republic of Moldova, Oleg Vasnetsov, and with Ambassador Peter Michalko, the Head of the European Union Delegation to the Republic of Moldova, and described the events in the social networks.

MP Zinaida Greceanii, Chairperson of the Party of Socialists (PSRM), has refuted political opponents’ and media assertions that the parliamentary Socialist faction, all its 35 MPs, flew to Moscow on Tuesday allegedly to discuss questions of governing coalition formation in Moldova.

The Party of Socialists (PSRM) cannot see any use in founding, jointly with the ACUM bloc, a working group in parliament for promoting the ACUM-proposed Moldova de-oligarchization bills because the proposal does not coincide with the decision taken by the PSRM All-Republican Council on April 12, MP Vlad Batrincea, the PSRM Executive Secretary, wrote in the social networks on Tuesday.

President of Moldova Igor Dodon met with Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the USA to Moldova Dereck J. Hogan on Thursday and discussed the current state of things in the country after elections. Dodon wrote about this meeting on his Facebook page.

The Political Council of the voting bloc ACUM will discuss on Tuesday the proposals made by the Party of Socialists [PSRM] on forming a governing coalition. Assembly time will be announced later on, ACUM MP Radu Marian said to journalists today.

Moldova President Igor Dodon estimates the probability of an early parliamentary election against the formation of a governing coalition at 70% against 30%, he stated during the “Friday with Anatoly Golea” live program cast weekly on the RTR-Moldova television channel.

The Democratic Party of Moldova is against an early parliamentary election, but is ready to any variant, and should such polls be really held, the Democrats will receive even more parliamentary mandates than what they won on February 24, the Chairman of the parliamentary Democratic faction, Prime Minister of Moldova Pavel Filip, stated in an interview with the Tribuna portal.

The opposition political bloc ACUM, consisting of the parliamentary factions of the DA Platform and the Party of Action and Solidarity (PAS), has commenced consultations with the forum’s largest faction of the Party of Socialists (PSRM). On Wednesday afternoon, ACUM representatives came for a meeting with the Socialists, which was organized in the Parliament Building on the PSRM’s initiative.

The Party of Socialists (PSRM), having the largest faction of 35 in the 101-member Parliament of Moldova, has a mandate for negotiations on governing coalition forming only with the ACUM bloc deputies, MP Vlad Batrincea, the PSRM Executive Secretary, stated once again on the local television on Wednesday night.

“In the context of the invitation, which the parliamentary PSRM faction has sent to us today, the ACUM bloc is reaffirming its commitment to liberating the [Moldovan] State from the captivity of the oligarchic regime”, the bloc wrote in its press release posted in the social networks.

The Party of Socialists (PSRM) has officially invited the Right-wing pro-European political bloc ACUM to negotiations on the forming of a governing coalition, PSRM Secretary for Ideology Ion Ceban announced at a news conference on Wednesday.

The February 24 parliamentary election campaign was compromised due to numerous violations, threatening and incitement to hatred and discrimination, says the final report of the Promo-LEX election monitoring mission.

Moldova President Igor Dodon is assessing the probability of an early parliamentary election at “minimum 60%”.

MP Bogdan Tardea of the Socialist faction has expressed bewilderment about the reaction shown by the ACUM bloc leaders that followed after the presentation of the list of priorities, on the basis of which the Socialists are ready to hold political discussions.

The ACUM bloc leaders have expressed their disappointment with the stance of the Party of Socialists on the coalition forming negotiations, and have demanded to urgently convoke a parliament meeting. On Tuesday, Andrei Nastase and Maya Sandu organized a news conference to comment on the pre-conditions put forth by the Socialists for starting negotiations on governing coalition forming.

The Party of Socialists of the Republic of Moldova has put forward its conditions for holding negotiations on forming a governing coalition and on overcoming a political crisis in the country. This decision was taken at the joint meeting of the PSRM Political Executive Committee and of the parliamentary Socialist faction held on Tuesday morning.