Monday, August 10, 2009

Negotiations between new Alliance members continue today

ProTV's 5 p.m. evening news showed footage of the four Alliance member leaders walking into the Moldova Noastra headquarters in Chisinau. They said very little, but mentioned the talks would focus would be on the organization of the new Alliance.

The Liberal Democratic Party, the Liberal Party, the Democratic Party, and the Moldova Noastra [Our Moldova] Alliance announced on Saturday that they will form a new governing coalition. The four parties have 53 seats combined, which allows them to form a cabinet and elect a Speaker, but are still short of the 61 seats necessary to elect a President. It is still unclear where those eight votes will come from since the Alliance members said they would not negotiate with the Party of Communists.