Sandu: I Once Told Dodon that I Am a Partner, not His Subordinate.

Former Prime Minister Maia Sandu claims that when President Igor Dodon began publicly criticizing ministers in the government, she told him that she and her colleagues in the government were not subordinates of the head of state. Sandu claims that she reminded Dodon that they are partners, but his desire to subjugate the government manifested itself on the first day after the cabinet led by Maia Sandu resigned, i.e. when the president took the place of the new prime minister in the government meeting room. He began to give instructions to ministers, cotidianul.md reports. “Do you remember how it was when I was prime minister? Did Igor Dodon sit in the prime minister's chair to talk about what to do? No, and this bothered Igor Dodon. It was not his business, and I always told him about it. On the first day after the resignation of the government that I led, Igor Dodon sat in the prime minister’s chair. This is what he wanted. He wanted to see himself there," Maia Sandu said in the Cotidianul LIVE program when asked if she would still allow the president to intervene in the crisis caused by COVID-19, as happens under the current government, if she still headed the government. Sandu noted that she always reminded Dodon that she was a partner, not his subordinate. “At some point, Dodon began to publicly accuse the government and ministers, and then I had a conversation with him, and I said that my colleagues and I were not his subordinates, that we are partners,” Maia Sandu noted. Sandu emphasized that in her words, "Dodon said nothing, went to the Presidency and demanded the government's resignation."