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By Alexander Tanas CHISINAU, Jan 27 (Reuters) - Moldovan President Maia Sandu said on Wednesday she was nominating former finance minister Natalia Gavrilita as prime minister but that the country could still head towards an early parliamentary election. Gavrilita, 43, was finance minister when Sandu was prime minister in 2019, in a short-lived government that fell in a no-confidence vote within months. Before that, she worked with British-based consultancy Oxford Policy Management and at the no...

Article content CHISINAU — Moldovan President Maia Sandu on Wednesday said she was nominating former Finance Minister Natalia Gavrilita to become the new prime minister but stressed the country could still head towards early elections. Gavrilita was the finance minister when Sandu was prime minister in 2019, in a short-lived government that fell in a no confidence vote within months. Before that, she worked with the British-based consultancy Oxford Policy Management. We apologize, but this vi...

Former finance minister Gavrilita nominated as Moldovan premier If parliament rejects her choice twice in the space of 45 days, Sandu can dissolve parliament and set a date for a new election. "I nominate Natalia Gavrilita for the post of Prime Minister of Moldova and entrust her with the formation of a government," Sandu told a news briefing on Wednesday.Reuters | Updated: 27-01-2021 22:01 IST | Created: 27-01-2021 22:01 IST Moldovan President Maia Sandu said on Wednesday she was nominating...

Moldova's parliament voted to repeal legislation on Wednesday that had allowed the finance ministry to issue bonds worth 13.5 billion Moldovan lei ($790 million) to prop up the financial system in 2016 after a massive banking scandal was uncovered.

Moldovas former president, Igor Dodon, said on Friday that his Party of Socialists was preparing for the early parliamentary elections in June

Given Sandu’s exceptional record in opposition, her brief stint as prime minister, and landslide victory over pro-Russian incumbent Igor Dodon in presidential elections on November 17 last year, there is no reason to doubt the president’s sincerity. Yet developments in the case of Moldova’s anti-corruption prosecutor Viorel Morari which have surfaced in recent days may well prove the first test of her term in office. On January 19, as President Sandu continued her talks in Brussels with E...

By Reuters Staff 1 Min Read Maia Sandu, opposition candidate and former Prime Minister, walks to cast her ballot at a polling station during the second round of a presidential election in Chisinau, Moldova November 15, 2020. REUTERS/Vladislav Culiomza CHISINAU (Reuters) - Opposition candidate Maia Sandu, who favours closer ties with the European Union, was ahead in the second round of Moldova’s presidential election on Sunday, according to exit polls that put her on 54.8% of votes compared to...

2 Min Read CHISINAU (Reuters) - Moldova’s constitutional court threw out a law on Thursday that would have given special status to the Russian language, passed last month by the pro-Russian parliament over the objection of the country’s newly elected, pro-EU president. The law would have made Russian the language for communication between ethnic communities, and required the names of goods, services and medicines to be translated into Russian. The court ruled it unconstitutional. “The law...

CHISINAU (Moldova), January 19 (SeeNews) - Moldova's constitutional court said that the parliament cannot dissolve itself and ruled that president

Moldovas former president and the leader of the Party of Socialists, Igor Dodon, said on Monday that the country is set to receive several hundred thousand doses of the Russian Sputnik V vaccine against COVID-19 in a few weeks.In late December, Dodon and the Deputy Chief of Staff of Russias Presid ..