Alliance for European Integration

The Alliance for European Integration (Romanian: Alianța pentru Integrare Europeană) was a centre-right, anti-communist coalition that governed Moldova from the July 2009 election until it lost to a no confidence vote in the Parliament on February 13, 2013.

[3][4] Government of Moldova The leaders of the four parties – Vlad Filat (PLDM), Mihai Ghimpu (PL), Marian Lupu (PDM), and Serafim Urechean (AMN) – signed the 22-point declaration of the Alliance in a news conference on Saturday, August 8, 2009.

In a press conference on October 21, 2009, Iurie Leancă announced that official negotiations on the association agreement Moldova-EU will start on January 12, 2010.

I hope that while in this position I will cooperate for a free press, independent legal system, and a state of law of which all the Moldovan citizens will be proud of.

"[7] The Constitutional Court of Moldova confirmed the legitimacy of Mihai Ghimpu's position as acting president, which gave him the right to nominate a prime minister.

[12] The resignation letter was sent to the Parliament secretariat and by a vote of 52 deputies in the plenary session of the legislature was declared vacant the post of the President of the Republic of Moldova.

The critics close to the Communists (PCRM) said that the new coalition was in fact a resurrection of the former Alliance for Democracy and Reforms (ADR), which mostly failed the expectations of its voters, due to many reasons.

Dorin Chirtoacă, mayor of Chişinău and member of the same party as Ghimpu, ordered the erection of a memorial stone in the National Assembly Square, in front of the parliament building, where a Lenin monument used to stand.

The Academy declared that: "Archival documents and historical research of international experts shows that the annexation of Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina was designed and built by Soviet Command as a military occupation of these territories.

The head of the observer mission from the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, Andreas Gross, praised the referendum as being well organised and corresponding to democratic standards.

[26][27] After the referendum failed, the Alliance announced on September 6 that it would consult the Constitutional Court of Moldova on dissolving parliament and holding a new election.