Moldovan Liberal Democrats, Democrats, Liberals make no progress in negotiations

08:50 | 15.12.2015 Category: Political

Chisinau, 14 December /MOLDPRES/ - The Liberal Democratic Party (PLDM) claims the right to put forward a candidate for the office of prime minister, stressing that the party might make public his/her name on the days to come.

The PLDM interim leader, Valeriu Strelet, has made a statement to this effect following the 14 December political talks, in which representatives of PLDM, Democratic Party (PDM) and Liberal Party (PL) participated.

Valeriu Strelet said that PLDM ''will not accept that the party with most mandates puts up the candidacy for the post of prime minister, as the results of the last parliamentary polls should be taken into account.''

For their part, the PDM and PL representatives consider that the negotiations got into a deadlock, as the Liberal Democrats insist that namely they should put forward the candidate for the office of prime minister.

''While so far, they were discussing only about a politically non-affiliated candidate, today the PLDM colleagues said they no longer accept the formula applied over the last six years, from bigger to smaller, according to the number of mandates, and that they reserve the exclusive right to propose the candidacy for the prime minister. They make reference to the outcomes of the parliamentary elections. Yet, I want to say that these results did not stay at the basis of the last July negotiations,'' PDM leader Marian Lupu said.

PL leader Mihai Ghimpu said that, ''while till present, PLDM representatives have been keeping saying that a politically non-affiliated prime minister must be voted, now they demanded that the prime minister be put up by them. We are ready to discuss any formula, yet this should be clear for all participants in the talks. At present, we discuss, discuss, yet with no results. We are everybody to have party meetings and meet again tomorrow.''

In the six years of governance of the pro-European parties, the party with most votes in the parliamentary majority has been putting forward the candidacies for the post of prime minister. Presently, PLDM has 19 mandates, PDM - 19 seats and PL 13. The non-affiliated lawmakers of the Leanca group have three mandates.

(Reporter A. Plitoc, editor L. Alcaza)

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