Sandu on Failure of No-Confidence Vote: It Was the Only Way to Check if There Are Votes

PAS Chairperson Maia Sandu said the only way to check if the opposition could get enough votes was to put forward a vote of no confidence. The ex-prime minister said this on the air of the Cotidianul Live program, unimedia.info reports. Despite the fact that the vote received 46 votes out of the required 51, and the Chicu government remained in office, the PAS leader does not exclude a new attempt to change the government. “I think that negotiations with the Democratic Party should continue and, perhaps, when the situation gets worse, they will listen and understand that everything must change and will no longer be willing to enter into a coalition with Igor Dodon,” Maia Sandu said. Earlier, a vote of no confidence in the government put forward by the DA Platform was considered at the plenary session of the parliament. According to the initiators of the vote, the executive branch headed by Ion Chicu “demonstrated incompetence of the government and created the preconditions for deepening the crisis in all spheres of public life.” At the same time, there is a “systematic violation of the law, promotion of the interests of groups of people, promotion of selective foreign policy, interference with the judicial system and aggressive control over media institutions”. However, the initiative did not receive support. Deputies from the DA Platform, PAS, Pro Moldova and Sor Party voted for putting forward the vote – the total of 46 votes. To dismiss the government, 51 votes are required.