Moldovan Democratic Party says does not want snap elections

Chisinau, 4 May /MOLDPRES/ - The faction of Moldova’s Democratic Party (PDM) today held a meeting which lasted almost seven hours. The subjects of discussion were focused on the internal party situation, relations with the governance partners, the party’s activity within the coalition, as well as the leaving of party members. In the end, PDM leader Pavel Filip said that an eventual political crisis would have been catastrophic for Moldova.    

According to Filip, at the meeting, the PDM MPs analyzed the recent developments on the political stage and eventual scenarios. ‘’PDM will not tolerate interferences from outside with the party’s work. We also analyzed the activity in the coalition; we are quite different; yet, we reached conclusion that the step made by PDM at that time was correct, which did not throw the country into chaos, as added to the pandemic state, an eventual political crisis would have been catastrophic for Moldova. The snap elections can be triggered in two cases: when a cabinet is not established or the parliament does not work during three months. Do you imagine what impact would this have on the state of things in the country?’’ Filip said.     

The head of the PDM faction in parliament, Dumitru Diacov, today said that the participants in the meeting had discussed the faction’s organization, relations with those from the governance and the opposition. ‘’There was an open and principled discussion, by taking contradictory positions; yet, we are all here and we have firm decision to go further,’’ Diacov said.   

The lawmakers denied the information on eventual attempts of changing the PDM president.