The Moldovan parliament has approved the new government headed by Prime Minister Alexandru Munteanu. The swearing-in ceremony will take place on November 1 at the presidential administration in Chisinau. reports Reuters.
President Maia Sandu nominated Alexandru Munteanu for the post of prime minister after her party “Action and Solidarity” (PAS) won the parliamentary elections. On October 6, after the results were confirmed by the Constitutional Court, Sandu called Munteanu and offered to lead the government.
The government of Alexandru Munteanu will be sworn in on November 1 at 10:00 a.m. at the residence of the Moldovan president. The event will be attended by President Maia Sandu and Parliament Speaker Igor Grosu. The new cabinet of ministers has received the support of 55 members of parliament. After the oath, the government will officially begin to exercise its powers.
Munteanu said that he intends to continue the previous government’s course of rapprochement with the European Union and the implementation of economic reforms. According to him, the main priorities will be stability, the fight against corruption and improving the investment climate in the country.
The appointment of the new prime minister took place after the resignation of the previous government, which ended its work amid political disputes. The formation of the new cabinet is seen as an attempt to strengthen confidence in Chisinau’s pro-European course on the eve of further negotiations with the EU.
Alexandru Munteanu is a pro-European economist who has not previously held public office. Before his appointment, he worked abroad in the financial sector for over twenty years and founded his own investment company.
Alexandru Munteanu, 61, has extensive international experience, having worked at the World Bank, co-founded the American Chamber of Commerce in Moldova, and headed the French Alliance in Chisinau for over three decades. He is a physicist by education, having taught at the Technical University of Moldova and worked at the Institute of Applied Physics of the Academy of Sciences.
In his 2018 resume to the American Chamber of Commerce in Kyiv, Munteanu described himself as “an American of Moldovan origin who has lived in Ukraine for over 20 years.” Since 2007, he has headed the investment department of Dragon Capital, and since 2016, he has headed his own investment company, 4i Capital Partners, which operates in Eastern Europe.
