Filip Cabinet
| Filip Cabinet | |
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| cabinet of Moldova | |
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Pavel Filip
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| Date formed | 20 January 2016 |
| People and organisations | |
| Head of state |
Igor Dodon (2016→) Nicolae Timofti (←2016) |
| Head of government | Pavel Filip |
| Deputy head of government |
Andrei Galbur Octavian Calmîc Gheorghe Bălan |
| No. of ministers | 9+2 (2017→) |
| Ministers removed (Death/resignation/dismissal) |
16+2 (2016–17) |
| Member parties | PDM, PL (2016–17) |
| Status in legislature | Majority (coalition) |
| Opposition parties | |
| Opposition leaders | |
| History | |
| Outgoing election | 2014 |
| Legislature term(s) | 2014–18 |
| Predecessor | Streleț Cabinet |
The Filip Cabinet is the current Cabinet of Moldova, led by Pavel Filip. It was inaugurated on 20 January 2016.
After the dismissal of previous cabinet, no consensus was reached by the three pro-European parliamentary parties - Liberal Democratic Party of Moldova (PLDM), Democratic Party of Moldova (PDM), and Liberal Party (PL). A new political crisis began. After on early 21 December 2015 Vlad Plahotniuc has announced his return in politics and in the Democratic Party, stating that he "will participate directly in the process of forming a new parliamentary majority [...] which also will succeed to gain all the needed votes for the election of the president in the next March" (2016), a few hours later, in the morning of 21 December 2015, a group of 14 communist MPs have announced that they leaves the communist faction in parliament and will form a new parliamentary group - The Social Democratic Platform for Moldova (Platforma Social Democrată Pentru Moldova), and later PDM and the group of former communists MPs began discussions regarding the formation of a new parliamentary majority.
On 13 January 2016 the newly formed parliamentary majority nominated Vlad Plahotniuc for the function of Prime Minister of Moldova, however, the president of Moldova Nicolae Timofti has rejected the candidature with a rationale which says that "there are reasonable suspicions that Mr. Vladimir Plahotniuc does not meet the criteria of integrity necessary for his appointment as Prime Minister, considering also that by the Decision no. 5 of 15.02.2013 of the Parliament of the Republic of Moldova, published in the Official Gazette on 22.02.2013, Mr. Vladimir Plahotniuc expressed a vote of mistrust in his capacity as first deputy chairman of the Parliament, accusing him of involvement in illegal activities that are prejudicial to the image of the Parliament, and the Republic of Moldova”.
Later Nicolae Timofti designated Ion Păduraru for the function of Prime Minister, but after Păduraru gave up, the parliamentary majority has nominated Pavel Filip - former Minister of Informational Technologies and Communications. During the parliamentary meeting, the Parliament building was surrounded by about 1,000 protesters that demanded the interruption of the vote. They broke a side door of the Parliament and entered the building, forcing the cordon of gendarmes. Many gendarmes offered no resistance, being dragged out of the device and giving up shields and batons. After several hours, police intervened in force, removing the protesters from the Parliament and cordoning the building off. 15 people, six protesters and nine gendarmes, suffered contusions after confrontations at Parliament. One of them was President of the Liberal Party, Mihai Ghimpu, who had his head broken, being hit by protesters while leaving the Parliament. After the president appointed Filip as Prime Minister of Moldova and Filip Cabinet was inaugurated in night, a series of major protests was resumed. The cabinet headed by Filip was voted by 57 of 101 MPs: all 20 Democratic Party MPs, 13 Liberal Pary MPs, 14 former communist (PCRM) MPs (Violeta Ivanov, Artur Reșetnicov, Vladimir Vitiuc, Victor Mîndru, Anatolie Zagorodnîi, Alexandr Bannicov, Igor Vremea, Sergiu Stati, Boris Golovin, Anatolie Gorilă, Galina Balmoș, Elena Gudumac, Corneliu Mihalache, Petru Porcescu), 8 PLDM MPs (Vladimir Hotineanu, Ion Balan, Ştefan Creangă, Nae-Simion Pleşca, Gheorghe Mocanu, Mihaela Spatari, Aliona Goţa, Valeriu Ghilețchi - they later were excluded from party for this vote), and another 2 former PLDM MPs (Petru Ştirbate and Nicolae Juravschi).
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