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He is a close ally of outgoing pro-Russian President Igor Dodon. His government controlled only 51 of 101 seats in the Moldovan parliament.
The new president can dissolve parliament if the prime minister resigns and there are two failed attempts to find a successor.
Chicu, who announced he was stepping down after a meeting with Dodon, said an early parliamentary election was the “priority objective in order to bring normalcy to Moldova.”
Moldova’s presidential election in November was seen as a referendum on two divergent visions for the future of the Eastern European nation of 3.5 million people that is sandwiched between Ukraine and Romania.
Moldova looks set for a snap election early next year following the resignation of the country’s prime minister.
Moldova’s prime minister, Ion Chicu (pictured above), has resigned just hours before the country’s parliament was due to vote on a no-confidence motion.
Mr Chicu made the announcement at a press conference organised by Igor Dodon, Moldova’s outgoing president, on December 23: the last day of his mandate.
In office just a year
The Harvard-educated Ms Sandu, erstwhile leader of the Action and Solidarity party (PAS), won 57 per cent of the vote in a run-off against Mr Dodon, officially independent but backed by the Socialist party (PSRM), on November 15.
YEAR IN REVIEW - Tale of 3 Protests: Ex-Soviet Republics Swept by Unrest With Mixed Outcome Wed 23rd December 2020 | 12:10 PM
MOSCOW (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 23rd December, 2020) From the rapid change of power by mobs and the storming of the presidential palace in Kyrgyzstan to the mass rallies against the government called for by the president-elect in Moldova and months-long nationwide protests in Belarus in defiance of the president - the post-Soviet space has become one simmering hotbed of unrest this year.
Mass protests in Belarus started after the presidential election on August 9, which, according to the official results, incumbent President Alexander Lukashenko, who has been governing the country since 1994, won by a landslide, securing a sixth consecutive term in office. Lukashenko s main opponent, Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, a political novice who decided to run only after her husband, Sergei Tikhanovsky, a popular blogger, was jailed in May, rejected the results and ca