Declared parliamentary majority of Moldova insists on nomination of Pavel Filip for premier office

13:53 | 15.01.2016 Category: Political

Chisinau, 15 January /MOLDPRES/ - Prime minister-designate Ion paduraru today said that he was to present the action programme and the list of the new government by 21 January. Also today, the declared parliamentary majority demanded that the head of state revokes the decree on nominating Ion Paduraru as candidate for the office of prime minister and put forward Pavel Filip for this post.

Prime minister-designate Ion Paduraru, who exercises the office of secretary general of the Presidency, told journalists that the presidential institution today had received a petition signed by the leader of the Democratic Party (PDM), Marian Lupu, in which President Nicolae Timofti was informed that the parliamentary majority did not agree with the candidate nominated for the office of prime minister. At the same time, the concerned petition demands revocation of the presidential decree, with the promise that a list on backing another candidate will be submitted in a short time.

Contacted by MOLDPRES, The spokesman for the Moldovan president, Vlad Turcanu, confirmed that "today the parliamentary majority presented at the Presidency a new candidacy for the prime minister office, in the person of acting Information Technology and Communications Minister Pavel Filip. The petition is to be considered by the presidency," Turcanu said.

Prime minister-designate Ion Paduraru said that he had already started discussions on initiation of talks with parliamentary factions. "In the capacity of candidate for the office of prime minister, I am categorically against snap elections. Thus, I will build a dialogue to find a compromise, so that we come up with a government action programme on 21 January. Nevertheless, I think that we will not have snap elections," Paduraru said.

On 14 January, President Nicolae Timofti signed a decree, under which Secretary General of the Presidency Ion Paduraru was nominated as candidate for the office of prime minister.

Under the Constitution, the candidate for the office of prime minister has at his disposal 15 days to ask for the parliament's vote of confidence on the government's action programme and the entire list of the cabinet.

(Reporter A. Plitoc, editor A. Alcaza)

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