BUCHAREST, June 14 (Xinhua) -- Moldova's ruling Democratic Party decided to step down from power, its deputy leader Vladimir Cebotari announced on Friday after a meeting of the party's National Political Council, according to news reports reaching here from Chisinau, capital of Moldova.
"Given the lack of openness of parliamentary parties to dialogue ... and to unlock the country out of the crisis, the Democrats decided to withdraw from the government by resigning the cabinet of ministers," Cebotari told a press briefing.
Yet, the Democrats' leader also said that "this does not mean that the political, legal and institutional blockage has been overcome" in the country.
According to him, the cabinet of Maia Sandu, formed by the Socialists and the ACUM alliance, is illegal and the civil servants will not perform their duties legally as long as there is a decision by the Constitutional Court in force that declared the actions of the Socialist deputies and those of the ACUM alliance contrary to the law.
Under these circumstances, Moldova will have to hold early elections, Cebotari said.
The political situation in Moldova underwent dramatic changes last Saturday when the Socialists and ACUM alliance, which signed a coalition agreement to form a parliamentary majority, convened a special parliamentary session, at which their deputies elected Socialists' leader Zinaida Greceanii as president of Parliament and approved a new government led by Maia Sandu, leader of the ACUM alliance.
The Constitutional Court accepted the contests of the ruling Democratic Party and ruled that the election of Greceanii as the parliament's speaker, as well as the formation of the new government were unconstitutional, just as the other decisions made by the national legislature starting from June 8, when the parliament must be dissolved.
Not only that, the top court on Sunday suspended President Igor Dodon for his refusal to dissolve the parliament and named Prime Minister Filip as acting president.
Filip immediately announced to dissolve the parliament and call snap elections on Sept. 6.
However, at the time of serious confrontation between the two sides, the European Union (EU) issued a statement on Sunday afternoon to explicitly support the newly-formed coalition government.
Analysts here believe that the attitude of the EU and the subsequent statements of Russia, Germany and other major European states played an important role in today's changes in the situation in Moldova.
