Early elections in the Republic of Moldova might mean the end of the Alliance for European Integration (AIE) and, more importantly, a halt to economic reforms, temporary Moldavian president Mihai Ghimpu believes. In an interview for HotNews.ro, he says he's not looking forward to a confrontation with the Venice Commission regarding their opinion on the ways to modify the Constitution, he does not see the role for "playing politics" with anticipated elections. The drop the Liberal Party (PL) has seen in surveys is triggered by the party's declared Romanianism, Ghimpu added, who also talked about the Republic of Moldova reuniting with Romania.

AIE will break if there will be anticipated elections, president Ghimpu believes. Everyone will then start to think of the future Parliament. "I'm not interested in my future mandate, what role I will get. I'm interested to use the current situation for the benefit of the state and of the people. It is up to the citizens and, unfortunately, they are not always aware of the facts. Now they want to drink milk even if they don't have a cow back home."

"There's the risk for the Alliance parties to lose the elections due to unpopular measures which need be taken, and hat's why I'm not in favour of the elections. We have taken responsibility for these reforms. I even said that if the European suggestion had been the change of Constitution through early elections and not through referendum, we should have been told and we would have thus elaborated the IMF memorandum. We would have said that reform begin, but in two years' time, after we would have passed the early elections, we would have elected the president.""The communists do not stand the chance to return to power. We will increase the chance for overseas citizens to be able to vote and there the communists have obtained very few votes, their mechanisms stop