Columnist: Marian Lupu will be nominated for the Speaker position

Petru Bogatu, a well-known columnist with Jurnal de Chisinau, said today that the four members of the ruling Alliance for European Integration have decided to nominate Democrat Marian Lupu for Speaker.

Media outlets previously said that Mr. Lupu would be nominated for the Presidency, but the Alliance had to change this plan because the Party of Communists said it would only provide the eight additional votes the Alliance needs to elect a head of state if Mr. Lupu were nominated by a center-left coalition in which the Communists would be the major element.

Liberal Democratic Party head Vlad Filat told the press today that "the Liberal Democrats aren't the ones who will make problems in the Alliance," but refused to say what exactly he meant by that.

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