Moldovan Liberals, Communists criticize cabinet reshufflings

15:54 | 20.12.2017 Category: Political

Chisinau, 20 December /MOLDPRES/ - The leaders of the Liberal Party (PL) and Party of Communists (PCRM) today criticized the government reshufflings.

Both PL leader Mihai Ghimpu and the head of the Communists, Vladimir Voronin, said the ministers put forward by the Democratic Party (PDM) would bring nothing new to Moldova.

’’I don’t think that the change will last for a long time. This is the business of those who assumed the governance act for a while. Let them form the cabinet as they deem it and the reasoning that this is a technocratic government is a lie,’’ Ghimpu told a news conference.

At a news conference, PCRM leader Vladimir Voronin said that the new cabinet would not differ from the previous one by anything and would continue the same policy of the present government. According to Voronin, at least two of the candidates put up for the offices of ministers were directly involved in the bank fraud and must be called to account.

Also today, the PL leadership said that its faction in the parliament would vote the PDM’s draft on the introduction of references on Moldova’s European vector only after the Article 13 is amended. ‘’We do not put conditions and do not blackmail, we just announce that we will back this amendment as concerns the space of values only after the change of the syntagm Moldovan language into Romanian language from the Fundamental Law,’’ Ghimpu added.

On 19 December, PDM leader Vlad Plahotniuc said that more than a half of the cabinet members would be changed. Following the reshufflings, Iurie Leanca will hold the office of deputy prime minister for European integration and Cristina Lesnic will hold the office of deputy prime minister for reintegration. Chiril Gaburici will hold the post of minister at the Economics and Infrastructure Ministry and the present director of the National Blood Transfusion Centre, Svetlana Cebotari, will come to the Health, Labour and Social Protection Ministry. The rector of the Agrarian State University of Moldova, Liviu Volconovici, will manage the sector of Agriculture, Regional Development and Environment and Tudor Ulianovschi will lead the Foreign Affairs and European Integration Ministry. The cabinet’s justice sector will be led by Alexandru Tanase.

(Reporter A. Zara, editor A. Raileanu)

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