(ANSA-AP) - CHISINAU, 14 NOV - Moldova's parliament has voted
to back a new, technocratic government led by a former finance
minister.
Over 60 of 101 deputies voted in favor of Prime Minister Ian
Chicu's government, two days after the collapse of the
short-lived administration headed by Maia Sandu, a pro-Western,
anti-corruption reformer. Six of 11 ministers in the new
government, including Chicu, are former advisers to
Russia-backed President Igor Dodon.
Chicu received support from Dodon's former party, the
Socialists, whose dispute with Sandu over judicial reforms led
to her government's fall.
Moldova is one of the poorest countries in Europe, plagued by
corruption and political turmoil. The country of 3.5 million
people has been a politically strategic area for the West and
Russia since gaining independence after the 1991 collapse of the
Soviet Union. (ANSA-AP).
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