Ion Chicu has today Wednesday, December 23rd, 2020 announced his resignation as the Prime Minister of the former Soviet Republic Country, Moldova, his resignation will pave way for the early parliamentary elections after Maia Sandu was elected the President-elect.
His resignation is coming on the eve of the inauguration of the president-elect Maia Sandu, a pro-European politician who defeated the Moscow-backed incumbent Igor Dodon at the polls in November.
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Ion Chicu’s resignation is coming just some weeks after thousands of Moldovans protested demanding that the gov’t resigned and the dissolution of the parliament after passing legislation that would limit presidential powers.
On Wednesday Dodon said the prime minister decided to resign “not because of the vote of no confidence put forward by the opposition and not under pressure from the protesters, but in order to launch the procedure for early parliamentary elections.”
He added that Chicu’s resignation leads to the automatic dissolution of Moldova’s government.
Sandu’s victory marked a setback for Russia, which is anxious to preserve its influence there and has troops deployed to the Russian-speaking breakaway region of Transnistria.
In her campaign, the 48-year-old former prime minister vowed to fight corruption in the country of some 3.5 million people, one of the poorest in Europe.
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