Moldova’s parliament voted in legislator and businessman Valeriu Strelet as prime minister by the slimmest of margins on Thursday and approved his pro-Europe government after he pledged to try to extricate the country from financial crisis.
A three-party, pro-European Union alliance, which holds a slender majority in the 101-seat assembly, mustered the 52 votes needed to secure Strelet’s approval in the 101-seat assembly.
The post of prime minister has been vacant in the former Soviet republic since June 12, when Chiril Gaburici stepped down after just over 100 days in office following allegations that his school diplomas were fake.
Strelet, 45, outlining his …read more
Source: Voice of America
