Critical of the communists’ filing the motion, Filat has warned that the sacking of the government will lead to early parliamentary elections. The current cabinet took office on January the 14th 2011. Moldovan President, Nicolae Timofti, on Thursday conveyed a public message saying that early elections would bring significant prejudice to the country’s efforts of getting closer to the EU and would cause instability. The president has urged political leaders and MPs to offer their support in parliament for a West-leaning alliance, able to keep the Republic of Moldova on the way to European accession. The presidential spokesman, Vlad Ţurcanu, has more:

Vlad Ţurcanu: “President Timofti is drawing attention to the fact that Moldova’s processes of modernization might be interrupted if forces hostile to its European ambitions return to the center of the political stage in Chisinau”.

Timofti considers that the hostile forces could be, first of all, the representatives of the Communists’ Party, which support Moldova’s pro-Russian orientation and the return to Soviet values and symbols. Against this background, the future of the Moldovan government is uncertain. The Democratic Party is backing the communists’ motion, in principle, and condition their further participation in the coalition on the so-called “zero solution”, that is the Prime Minister’s stepping down, followed by the resignation of the Speaker of Parliament, Liberal Democrat Marian Lupu. The third political party in the ruling coalition, the Liberal Party, does not back the communists’ motion and stands for negotiations between the components of the Alliance, as the leader of the parliamentary group, Ion Hadârcă has said.

Ion Hadârcă: “The Liberal Party stands for maintaining the alliance as a political formula which further guarantees Moldova’s way towards EU accession”.

The motion will be debated in Parliament on March the 5th. It is already supported by the 34 communist MPs. Overall, the groups which might back the motion count on the votes of 55 MPs, that is 4 more votes than the necessary number to change the current political path.