CRISTINA LESNIC SAYS HER RESIGNATION WAS A WELL-THOUGHT POLITICAL DECISION

Moldova’s Special Representative for Transnistria negotiations, Deputy Prime Minister for Country Reintegration (until Monday) Cristina Lesnic called her resignation from the Government as “a well-thought political decision.

Lesnic wrote in the social networks today that the decision to resign was taken after she and 4 more ministers of the Chicu Government, Democratic Party representatives, had discussed this question with Prime Minister Ion Chicu.

“I decided to resign as Deputy Prime Minister for country reintegration issues, being fully convinced that I fulfilled my mandate and my mission in a worthy manner. I am leaving with my head held high! This is a well-thought political decision!” wrote Cristina Lesnic.

The new Deputy Prime Minister for reintegration will now be Olga Cebotari, who is unknown in the Moldovan politics. Her page in the social networks says that she worked in the Moldovan Embassy in Moscow, and that until this new appointment she was Deputy Director of the Department for Economic Cooperation at the Executive Committee of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). She took a post-graduate course at Moscow State Institute of Foreign Affairs (MGIMO, the country’s second prestigious-most higher educational institution, after Moscow State University, MGU). And she is a graduate from the Academy of Diplomacy of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

A year and a half ago, i.e. during “the Plahotniuc epoch” yet, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and European Integration undertook a check at the Moldovan Embassy in Moscow, having accused the diplomats that the Party of Socialists (PSRM), together with its informal leader, President Igor Dodon, have converted the country’s Embassy in Moscow into an office of the PSRM election headquarters. The deschide.md portal wrote then that rooms were rented in the Embassy building by an organization that was allegedly tackling the Moldovan diaspora’s problems, but in the reality it was the youth wing of the Party of Socialists. That youth organization was headed by Olga Cebotari, who, according to media reports, “was busy canvassing in the PSRM’s favor throughout her period of stay in Moscow”.