{"id":4454,"date":"2021-01-01T09:31:21","date_gmt":"2021-01-01T09:31:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/?p=145312"},"modified":"2021-01-01T09:31:21","modified_gmt":"2021-01-01T09:31:21","slug":"moldovas-president-names-acting-prime-minister-repeats-call-for-snap-parliamentary-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/01\/moldovas-president-names-acting-prime-minister-repeats-call-for-snap-parliamentary-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"Moldova&#8217;s President Names Acting Prime Minister, Repeats Call For Snap Parliamentary Elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img src=\"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/D6599076-0FC7-4DD1-BA78-663995095D9F_cx0_cy5_cw94_w1200_r1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"wsw\">\n<p>Moldovan President Maia Sandu has appointed Foreign Minister Aurel Ciocoi as acting prime minister.<\/p>\n<p>Sandu announced the appointment on Facebook on December 31, following the resignation of former Prime Minister Ion Chicu last week.<\/p>\n<p>Sandu defeated pro-Russian President Igor Dodon in an election last month on a platform of combating corruption and building on her country\u2019s Association Agreement with the European Union.<\/p>\n<p>Ciocoi, a career diplomat, previously served as Dodon\u2019s foreign policy adviser. Under Moldova\u2019s constitution, Sandu was obliged to choose an acting prime minister from among the outgoing cabinet.<\/p>\n<p>Sandu has asked the Constitutional Court to weigh in on a request by parliamentary deputies from the Party of Action and Solidarity &#8212; which Sandu headed before becoming president &#8212; to allow parliament to dissolve itself and hold snap elections.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hope that the court will consider this request\u2026in a few days,\u201d Sandu said on December 31.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/2021\/01\/01\/moldovas-president-names-acting-prime-minister-repeats-call-for-snap-parliamentary-elections\/\">Radio Free<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moldovan President Maia Sandu has appointed Foreign Minister Aurel Ciocoi as acting prime minister. Sandu announced the appointment on Facebook on December 31, following the resignation of former\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[457,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4454"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4454"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4455,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4454\/revisions\/4455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}