CHISINAU. Nov 22 (Interfax) - Moldovan President-elect Igor Dodon called the defense minister "a dangerous vuvuzela," which "does not have much time left to make sound."
"[Moldovan Defense Minister] Anatol Salaru is a 'vuvuzela' for supporters of Moldova's union with Romania. This is a dangerous vuvuzela [a wind instrument popular in southern Africa], it does not have much time left to make sound," Dodon wrote on Facebook on Tuesday.
Dodon said in an interview with a TV channel last week that one of his first steps as a president will be an approval of a new composition of the Supreme Security Council excluding Salaru and the leaders of the parties in the ruling coalition.
Salaru stands for Moldova joining NATO, and several attempts of his dismissal were made over that. The factions of communists and socialists in the parliament introduced initiatives of a no-confidence vote against the minister. However, the ruling coalition supported Salaru, who is a deputy chairman of the Liberal Party of Moldova.
Moldova is a parliamentary republic, a president has restricted powers. The president cannot carry out personnel changes in the government and the executive branch structures without securing an approval of the government formed by the parliamentary majority.