Bad joke

The jokes are already over. The Parliament of Moldova has once again failed to elect a president. This time the democrats again failed to come to an agreement with the communists, and 53 votes were given for the only candidate Marian Lupu, out of the required 61. The communists refused to take part in the meeting. According to the country's Constitution, if the president is not elected and after repeated elections, the acting president, the chairman Parliament Mihai Ghimpu will be obliged to dissolve parliament and set a date for early parliamentary elections. This year parliamentary elections have already been held twice. The communists won the first, which caused a wave of unrest in Chisinau, but they were unable to elect a president without the support of the democratic opposition. As a result of the second elections, the democratic coalition gained a parliamentary majority, but, as we see, nothing worked out for them. Now Moldova can console itself with the fact that, in accordance with the adopted amendments, the parliament may be dissolved after June 16, 2010, and the next elections in this case will take place no earlier than the fall. Before the vote, which was already clearly felt by everyone as a formality, Ghimpu promised the deputies that Lupu will still be president, and this will happen in the near future. True, he did not explain how. Last week, Ghimpu proposed developing a package of amendments to the Constitution in terms of changing the provisions on the procedure for electing the president. In his opinion, only through a popular referendum can the political crisis in the country be overcome.