Moldova Narrowly Approves New Prime Minister

Moldova's parliament voted in legislator and businessman Valeriu Strelet as prime minister by the slimmest of margins on Thursday and approved his pro-Europe government after he pledged to try to extricate the country from financial crisis. A three-party, pro-European Union alliance, which holds a slender majority in the 101-seat assembly, mustered the 52 votes needed to secure Strelet's approval in the 101-seat assembly. The post of prime minister has been vacant in the former...

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