{"id":1413545,"date":"2026-07-03T11:50:30","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T08:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/?p=1413545"},"modified":"2026-07-03T11:50:30","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T08:50:30","slug":"moldovan-prime-minister-resigns-what-is-known","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/moldovan-prime-minister-resigns-what-is-known\/","title":{"rendered":"Moldovan Prime Minister resigns: what is known"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Moldovan Prime Minister Alexandru Munteanu unexpectedly announced his resignation.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"172\" data-end=\"256\">This <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurointegration.com.ua\/news\/2026\/07\/3\/7240881\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">was reported by<\/a> &#8220;European Truth&#8221; with reference to the official&#8217;s post on social networks.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"261\" data-end=\"332\">He noted that as of today, July 3, he is leaving the post of Prime Minister.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"337\" data-end=\"622\">&#8220;I accepted the offer to become Prime Minister with great responsibility and a firm belief that I could contribute to changes for the better. The moment I realized that I could no longer fulfill my role in accordance with my principles and beliefs, I decided to leave,&#8221; he wrote to Alexandru Munteanu.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"627\" data-end=\"704\">The former prime minister also expressed gratitude to his former government team for their cooperation.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"709\" data-end=\"891\">&#8220;I will continue to serve my country regardless of my position, where I live, and what my responsibilities will be &#8211; in the public or private sector,&#8221; Munteanu added.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"896\" data-end=\"1024\">The publication notes that the official&#8217;s resignation is likely related to the corruption scandal that has erupted in the country in recent days.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1029\" data-end=\"1203\">It has become known that the head of the civil aviation safety agency MOLDATSA, appointed to the position by the current authorities, has a fake higher education diploma and pilot&#8217;s license.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1208\" data-end=\"1342\">In addition, on Thursday, July 2, the State Secretary of the Ministry of Agriculture was detained. The official is suspected of bribery.It was previously reported that <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/uhorshchyna-pryzupynyla-rozghliad-zaiavok-ukrainy-ta-moldovy-na-vstup-do-yes-u-chomu-prychyna\/\">Hungary has suspended consideration of Ukraine&#8217;s and Moldova&#8217;s applications for membership in the European Union<\/a> , postponing a decision on opening all negotiation clusters for both countries.<\/p>\n<p>Also follow <strong>\u201cPryamim\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">X<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Instagram<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moldovan Prime Minister Alexandru Munteanu unexpectedly announced his resignation. This was reported by &#8220;European Truth&#8221; with reference to the official&#8217;s post on social networks. He noted that as of today, July 3, he is leaving the post of Prime Minister. &#8220;I accepted the offer to become Prime Minister with great responsibility and a firm belief [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":1413533,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76875,76871,76872],"class_list":["post-1413545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-other-news","category-news-2","category-news-feed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1413545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1413545"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1413545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1413546,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1413545\/revisions\/1413546"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1413533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1413545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1413545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}