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[Independent.uk](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/ap-russia-chisinau-ukraine-maia-sandu-b2279756.html)

**Prime Minister Natalia Gavrilita resigned**

![](https://i0.wp.com/pennyforyourthoughts2.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/image-8.png?resize=580%2C452&ssl=1)**[She had just met with with top EU officials and ](https://euneighbourseast.eu/news/latest-news/top-eu-officials-meet-moldovan-prime-minister-ahead-of-eu-moldova-association-council/)she throws in the towel**??

> **Moldovan Prime Minister Natalia Gavriliţa met European Council President Charles Michel and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen in Brussels on 6 February**. Both meetings took place on the eve of the EU-Moldova Association Council in Brussels today.
> 
> They discussed support for Moldova’s economic and energy security, reforms and rapprochement with the EU.

**4 days later she pulls the rug out under her own government**

> Moldova’s government collapsed Friday as pro-Western Prime Minister Natalia Gavrilita resigned, adding to a series of crises that have gripped the small nation since [Russia](https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/russia) invaded its neighbor, [Ukraine](https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/ukraine).
> 
> Gavrilita told a news conference that the “time has come for me to announce my resignation”

**Only to have a new government appointed by the President! Gee, I wonder in which office the real power lies? President? Prime Minister?**

> > A new government will be nominated by President [Maia Sandu](https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/maia-sandu) and then needs to be approved by Moldova’s 101-seat parliament.

**Is Moldova getting it’s war footing ready?**
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##### [**Moldova’s president appoints defence and security adviser as PM designate**](https://www.lbc.co.uk/world-news/4f530b66c17040468b0158d52b1fc0e0/)

> President Maia Sandu **asked Dorin Recean** to form a government after Prime Minister Natalia Gavrilita resigns.

[Who is Dorin Recean?](https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/who-is-dorin-recean-nominee-moldovan-prime-minister-2023-02-10/?rpc=401&)

> Moldovan President Maia Sandu has **nominated defence adviser Dorin Recean to become the tiny country’s prime ministe**r following the [resignation](https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/moldovan-prime-minister-announces-government-resignation-2023-02-10/) of the previous government.
> 
> **Recean, who is also secretary of the Supreme Security Council, is expected to win parliamentary approval.**
> 
> **Recean spearheaded several important reforms, bringing the former Soviet republic closer to European Union standards. Before that, he was deputy minister for Information and Communication Technology.**

EXPERIENCE IN IT
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> **Recean has extensive experience in the private sector and in the IT industry, with a s`pecialisation in data, including big data, and information analysis`**

POLICY PLANS
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> Recean has said he plans to continue to pursue membership of the European Union for Moldova.
> 
> **“The new government will have three priorities: Order and discipline**, **a new life and economy,** and peace and stability,” he said after his nomination. “The new government will continue the implementation of Moldova’s strategic course – integration into the European Union.”

**Sounds very technocratic.**

**Watch for tensions to arise between Moldova and Transnistria.**

**Such as**
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<https://carnegieendowment.org/politika/87986>

> Destabilization in Moldova incited by Russia could prompt Kyiv and its allies to deprive Moscow of all its levers of influence there **once and for all by purging the self-proclaimed Transnistria republic of Russia’s military presence there.**