AEI leaders: No early elections in Moldova in 2010
The leaders of the governing Alliance for European Integration constituent parties are claiming there are "substantial chances" for avoiding early parliamentary elections in 2010.
The Alliance is considering several possible ways to achieving this, and one of such possibilities is to hold an early parliamentary election simultaneously with the 2011 ordinary local elections. Another possibility is to elect new president of Moldova by the incumbent parliament during the year 2010, which should let avoid dissolution of the parliament, so no early election would be needed.
Moldova Noastra Alliance leader Serafim Urechean stated to Infotag that the burden of the two election campaigns of 2009 should not be shifted into the next year.
"To my mind, elections may be held in three years and in 364 days. The Constitution does not put it clearly when parliament must be dissolved or when election date must be announced, and the election date proper. Therefore, everything will depend on the consensus we in the governing alliance will reach", said Serafim Urechean.
His position is shared by Parliament Speaker Mihai Ghimpu, who has repeatedly promised the nation that its new president shall be elected by parliament necessarily in 2010.
Ghimpu stated to Infotag, "I shall do all in my powers to put into life the Alliance's accord - to elect Marian Lupu president, and to hold next parliamentary elections in 4 years' time."
Himself the Democratic Party leader, Marian Lupu, says he is "well fed up with the 2009 electoral marathon. May be, we will eventually find a possibility to avoid an early election in 2010. But, unfortunately, the electoral process may well continue in 2010, too".
Liberal Democratic Party parliamentary faction leader Mihai Godea voiced confidence that the Commission for Constitutional Reform will achieve a solution to avoid a new parliamentary election.
"Of course, we are able to withstand all hardships. But, as the proverb says, a poor peace is better than a good war. We need to wait and hear from jurists their expert conclusions on constitutional bottlenecks. Besides this, the Constitutional Court, too, may propose its interpretation of the knotty problem. Anyhow, the Liberal Democratic Party is ready for any events", Godea told your Infotag correspondent.
Infotag news agency (Moldova)
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