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Moldova will hold early parliamentary elections
As of today, the Moldovan parliament is considered dissolved. Early parliamentary elections are scheduled for November 28. The corresponding decree was signed yesterday in the presence of journalists by the country's acting president and parliament speaker Mihai Ghimpu. He explained that the legislative body had to be dissolved due to the inability of deputies to choose the head of state. This is the third parliamentary election in Moldova in the last two years; the current composition of the parliament was formed following the results of early elections in July 2009.The Constitutional Court of Moldova decided on September 21 that the failure to elect a president last year in the elections on November 10 and repeat elections on December 7 is a circumstance justifying the dissolution of parliament. The ruling Alliance for European Integration tried to avoid the dissolution of parliament with the help of a referendum to change the constitution - so that the president would be elected by the whole people, and not by deputies. However, the referendum scheduled for September 5 failed due to low voter turnout.
Ghimpu expressed regret that “he was forced to sign this decree, since people who wanted changes gave the authorities a mandate for four years.” He also admitted that he was not very happy with his work in parliament, since he “did half the work as president and half as speaker.” “Thank God, I was the chairman of the CIS for a short time, and it was also not easy,” concluded the acting president, who refused to attend the Victory Parade on May 9 in Moscow along with other leaders of the Commonwealth states, and then signed a scandalous decree on the introduction of a commemorative “ day of Soviet occupation" of Moldova.
According to analysts, fate is unlikely to give Mr. Ghimpu a chance to be president again, even if the balance of power in the newly elected parliament repeats the current one. The main rivals in the elections will be the forces that are part of the ruling coalition (these are the Liberal, Liberal Democratic and Democratic parties, as well as the Our Moldova alliance), and the opposition Party of Communists. Each side will strive to get into the legislature and find there, alone or together with potential allies, the necessary number of votes to elect a new president. This requires 61 mandates out of 101.