Moldovan Prime Minister supports possible unification with Romania

Moldovan Prime Minister Alexandre Munteanu said on January 16 that as a citizen he would vote for the unification of the country with Romania if an appropriate referendum were held.

"As a citizen, Alexandru Munteanu, I would vote for [unification with Romania]. But as Prime Minister of Moldova, I am obliged to fulfill the will of the majority of our country's citizens, who have already voted three times that our strategic goal is integration into the European Union," he said in an interview with the Observatorul de Nord.

Thus, the head of government supported the statement of Moldovan President Maia Sandu, who had previously expressed her personal willingness to vote for unification with Romania. At the same time, Munteanu stressed that he would do "everything that is required of me" for the country's integration into the European Union (EU). "Газета.Ru ".

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Maia Sandu supports the idea of a referendum

On January 11, Sandu announced in the podcast The Rest Is Politics that in the event of a referendum she would vote for unification with Romania. She explained that it is becoming more difficult for a small country to "survive as a democracy" and preserve its sovereignty. Sandu noted that at the moment the majority of citizens of the republic do not support such an idea.

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