Republic of Moldova

Moldova could be led for the first time by two women after President Maia Sandu on Friday appointed a close political partner Natalia Gavrilita as Prime Minister-designate. 

A pro-reform party seeking closer ties for Moldova with the European Union has won a clear majority in the parliamentary election, electoral commission results show Monday.

Romania's right-wing nationalist AUR party has registered in neighbouring Moldova, where it intends to take party in the July elections – and create a rejuvenated pro-Romanian force in the country.

President Maia Sandu has dissolved the Moldovan parliament and called snap elections for July 11, shortly after the Constitutional Court canceled a state of emergency that lawmakers had approved.

Moldova's highest court has ruled in favour of President Maia Sandu's request to dissolve parliament, paving the way for early parliamentary elections in which her pro-Western allies hope to do well.

Moldovan President Maia Sandu has appointed Foreign Minister Aurel Ciocoi as acting prime minister. … Sandu has asked the Constitutional Court to weigh in on a request by parliamentary deputies from the Party of Action and Solidarity -- which Sandu headed before becoming president -- to allow parliament to dissolve itself and hold snap elections.

Some 20,000 protesters backing Moldova's incoming pro-EU president have taken to the streets of the capital demanding the government's resignation and early general elections.

[…] On Monday, she said Russia's peacekeeping force - the Operational Group of Russian Forces in Trans-Dniester (OGRF) - should be replaced in the Moldovan territory by civilian monitors under the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE). … Russia has about 1,500 troops stationed in the region.

Opposition candidate Maia Sandu has won Moldova's presidential election after a run-off vote against the incumbent Igor Dodon, preliminary results show.

Moldovan Prime Minister Ion Chicu reshuffled his cabinet on Monday with five new ministers after his coalition partners from the Democratic Party, PD, redrew their ministers on Saturday, ahead of the run-off for the presidential elections due next Sunday, November 15.