Dignity and Truth Platform Party

Support in the Moldovan parliament for Prime Minister Ion Chicu's coalition government is slipping away, as the Socialist Party, PSRM, and its Democratic Party, PD, allies now only hold 54 of the 101 seats in the legislature - a majority of three.

The leader of the Dignity and Truth Platform Party, PPDA, Andrei Nastase, intends to run again in the new mayoral race for the capital, Chisinau which should take place this summer. Parliament in Moldova has not yet set an exact date for the election.

The leader of opposition Action and Solidarity Party in Moldova, Maia Sandu, on Tuesday in Bucharest asked Romania to help investigate the "grand theft" of a billion US dollars from Moldova's banking system between 2011 and 2014, on the grounds that Romania was one of the destinations for the stolen cash.

The cancellation of the results of the mayoral election, won last month by Andrei Nastase, was the straw that broke the camel's back for many people in Moldova.

The initial ruling of a local court in Chisinau on June 20 was confirmed on June 25 by the Supreme Court of Justice.

The National Liberal Party (PNL) hails the "remarkable victory" recorded by the leader of the Dignity and Truth Platform Party (PPDA), Andrei Nastase, representative of the pro-European forces in the Republic of Moldova, in the second round of elections for the mayoralty of Chisinau, according to a press release issued on Sunday evening for AGERPRES and signed by the PNL chair Ludovic Orban.

Moldova's main pro-European opposition parties agreed on Monday to run joint lists for the 2018 parliamentary elections amid concerns that the new electoral system will help the larger parties.