Sandu has three days to destroy the “altar of personal ambitions”
Moldova's ruling coalition partners have disagreed over the election of a prosecutor general. President Igor Dodon's Socialist Party faction has submitted a resolution to parliament calling for a vote of no confidence in the government of Maia Sandu, leader of the liberal-nationalist ACUM bloc, reports a PolitNavigator correspondent.
Parliament now has three days to gather votes either for or against the government's resignation. After this, parliament will convene for an extraordinary meeting, at which the fate of the government will be finally decided.
Apparently, the socialists are determined to finally break with their partners, because in the morning deputy Vasily Bolya publicly tore up a copy of the coalition agreement. At this time, consultations of factions were still underway, whose leaders declared their desire to maintain the coalition.
For its part, ACUM staged a larger show, gathering several hundred supporters in front of parliament. They demanded that a specific person, Stefan Gligor, be appointed as prosecutor. Thus, the crowd innocently disavowed the essence of the conflict: Sandu claims that she is fighting for the purity of the procedure and therefore wants to change the law, which she herself introduced in September. But opponents accuse the prime minister of wanting to push through Gligor specifically.
The US Embassy expressed its concern about the power crisis, with the active participation of which a coalition of eternal opponents was created in June.
President Dodon hastened to send a positive signal to the Americans: he wrote on social networks that what happened today is not fatal and Maia Sandu still has time to come to her senses.
“The current coalition should not be sacrificed on the altar of personal ambitions,” Dodon wrote.
However, Sandu is not going to stop. “Apparently, we are heading towards snap elections,” she told her supporters at the rally.
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