Gavrilita on a New Attempt to Appoint the Government: We Will Take It Slow

Natalia Gavrilita, re-nominated for the post of prime minister, says she would like another attempt to establish her government to fail to lay the ground for snap parliamentary elections. Gavrilita makes it clear that she will not hold consultations with parliamentary factions to ask for their votes, and says that Maia Sandu will never appoint a candidate for the post of prime minister proposed by a group of dubious people, ipn.md reports. After the first attempt to approve failed, during which she did not receive a single vote of deputies, Natalia Gavrilita announced that, in accordance with the law, she would go to parliament again to be through with the second attempt. Maia Sandu's re-nominated candidate for prime minister says the government program could be improved before the second voting. "I will speak with colleagues both in the PAS and with colleagues from the proposed government. We will discuss next steps. And when this happens, we will come to parliament. We will take it slow," Natalia Gavrilita said during the În Profunzime program on ProTV. Moreover, Natalia Gavrilita says that she will not hold consultations with parliamentary factions, since she does not want their vote at the plenary session of the parliament. "At the moment when we say that this is the way to early elections and there was an unsuccessful attempt at approval, we are moving forward, and I do not understand why we should approach this differently now. My colleagues from the PAS have discussions with the deputies of all factions on the parliamentary platform, and we see no need to go to them," Gavrilita added. Natalia Gavrilita also commented on President Sandu's refusal to nominate Mariana Durlesteanu for the post of prime minister, saying that the head of state would not promote people supported by a corrupt parliamentary majority to office. "The socialists, together with the deputies from the Shor Party and with the party-switchers, can find 67 votes to trigger the procedure for removing the country's president, which involves the removal of the head of state for a month, and a referendum. This means that we come to the citizens again to see what they want. But I think that it is much better if we go to the citizens as to the arbiter in early elections," Gavrilita said. The Socialist Party called President Sandu's refusal to nominate Mariana Durlesteanu for the post of prime minister, a candidate supported by a majority of 54 deputies, a usurpation of state power. PSRM announced that it would appeal to the Constitutional Court against the head of state's decree on re-nominating Natalia Gavrilita for the post of prime minister.