Government resigns

Prime Minister Zinaida Greceanii and her cabinet presented their resignations to acting President Voronin and to Parliament today.

Any Government has to resign once the new legislature is validated. Until a new cabinet is elected, the old one will act as a caretaker Government.

If the Parliament fails to elect a new President, however, the cabinet will remain in office until early elections in 2010.

This possibility looks likely since neither the Party of Communists nor the ruling Alliance for European Integration have the 61 seats necessary to vote in a head of state without the other side's assistance.

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