Valeriu Strelet

Some 40,000 people demonstrated in the Moldovan capital Chisinau on Sunday to demand early elections amid the ongoing crisis in Europe's poorest country, local media reported. 

"The people are with us. They do not want to support oligarchs and the criminal authorities," opposition leader Andrei Nastase told protesters, AFP news agency reported.

Several thousand demonstrators, angered about the formation of a new pro-EU government, mustered in front of parliament in Chisinau on Thursday, chanting anti-government slogans.

The rally took place a night after protesters broke through police lines and entered parliament after the new government was voted in.

Demonstrators against Moldova's new pro-European administration broke through police lines and entered the parliament building in Chisinau late Wednesday despite police attempts to disperse them with tear gas, media reported.

The parliament of Moldova passed a vote of no confidence in the country's pro-European coalition government.

A total of 65 out of 101 MPs voted in favour of the censure motion on Thursday, TASS news agency informs.