Motion of no confidence to govt to be considered by Moldovan parliament on Thursday
CHISINAU. Oct 28 (Interfax) - The Moldovan parliament will consider the motion of no confidence to the government on Thursday, its press service said in a statement on Wednesday.
"The motion to consider the Resolution on the vote of non-confidence to the Cabinet of Valeriu Strelet will be the first in the agenda of the meeting that will start at 10:00 [11:00 Moscow time]," the statement says.
Politicians and experts, with whom an Interfax correspondent had talked, still refrain from making any forecasts with regard to results of the vote, considering the chances for resignation of the government as "fifty-fifty".
Deputies of the Socialist Party and the Communist Party will be voting for the resignation. They proposed the resolution on the vote of non-confidence to the government a week ago. All together, they have 45 votes, while 51 out of 101 votes are needed to pass the resolution in the parliament.
Liberal Democrats [19 votes], whose leader, Valeriu Strelet, is the Prime Minister now, will not take part in the vote. Liberals also said that they will not be in favor of the government's resignation [their faction includes 13 deputies]. Experts suggest that the three independent deputies, who joined the parliamentary group of the European People's Party, are unlikely to back the Resolution either.
So, the decisive votes will be the ones held by the fraction of Democratic Party of Moldova, or DMP, which has 19 deputies in the parliament.
The DPM leader, Marian Lupu, told reporters on Wednesday that "the Democratic party has not made a final decision on this matter".