BUCHAREST, Nov. 14 (Xinhua) -- The Moldovan parliament approved on Thursday the minority technocratic cabinet formed overnight by career economist Ion Chicu amid a sudden political crisis, according to news reports reaching here from Chisinau, capital of Moldova.
Chicu's cabinet was voted by 62 MPs, almost all of them from the two largest parliamentary groups of Socialists and Democrats who cumulatively have 66 seats in the 101-seat one chamber parliament.
President Igor Dodon is to call the members of the new cabinet to sign the decrees of appointment later in the day.
The new cabinet consists of 11 members, including two deputy prime ministers. The cabinet structure is not much different from the previous one.
Six of the 11 members of the new executive, including the prime minister, so far have served as presidential advisers, according to state news agency Moldpres.
The new cabinet will have a short term and will end after the presidential election next fall, said Chicu when presenting government program and list of ministers to the parliament.
"Considering the status of minority government, established for the purpose of redressing the precarious situation in most of the social-economic fields of the Republic of Moldova, the time horizon of the activity program with which we come to you today is limited to the period up to the presidential elections of autumn 2020," said Chicu.
Chicu, 47, was nominated by the president to form a technical government a day ago and has 15 days to draw up the list of the cabinet and the governing program in order to present to the parliament, according to relevant laws. Yet, he soon completed the formation and asked the parliament early Thursday to cast a vote of confidence on his new cabinet.
Moldova suddenly fell into a political crisis on Tuesday when the coalition government of Prime Minister Maia Sandu was toppled in a motion of censure filed by the coalition member Socialist Party, which was dissatisfied with Sandu's decision to change the rules and take on the power to appoint the prosecutor general without consulting it.
