Moldovan deputy parliament speaker gives up MP mandate

Chisinau, 29 April /MOLDPRES/ - Deputy Parliament Speaker Liliana Palihovici gave up her MP mandate on 28 April evening, noting that she would dedicate herself exclusively to the family.  

Palihovici informed that he was also quitting the Liberal Democratic Party of Moldova (PLDM), on the list of which she was elected as lawmaker, as she feels that she no longer can do “the things for which the electors voted for her.” The former deputy parliament speaker addressed a message to the parliament colleagues, in which she said that the Moldovans were sick and tired of demagogy and politics and they wanted concrete actions. “The democracy has failed. I hope that, after I come down from this rostrum, there are people wondering about what is happening in this country,” Palihovici said.       

The mandate held by Liliana Palihovici could be taken over by a former MP, Nicolae Olaru.

Also on 28 April, a PLDM MP, Iurie Chiorescu, said he was joining the Democratic Party. Thus, the Liberal Democrats’ faction remained only with six of those 23 initially elected lawmakers.   

Liliana Palihovici was born in the Horodiste village, central Calarasi district, on 26 November 1971. In 2007, she was elected deputy leader of PLDM and has been acting as MP and parliament deputy speaker starting from 2010.   

(Reporter A. Zara, editor M. Jantovan)