Moldova’s Parliament approves a 60-day state of emergency due to the risk of Russian gas cuts

MADRID Dec. 13 () –

The Parliament of Moldova approved this Friday morning the imposition of a 60-day state of emergency in the energy sector that will begin next Monday due to uncertainty about the continuity of Russian gas supply from 2025.

The vote went ahead with the support of 56 deputies from the ruling Action and Solidarity (PAS), while the 17 deputies from the Bloc of Communists and Socialists voted against and two more parliamentarians abstained, according to the Moldovan news portal. Newsmaker.

At the beginning of December, Moldovan Prime Minister Dorin Recean forced the resignation of his Energy Minister, Victor Parlokov, and two other senior officials from companies linked to the sector, for their poor management of the energy crisis that has affected the country since the outbreak. at the end of February 2022 of the war in Ukraine, its neighboring country.

From the end of 2022, the Russian company Gazprom supplies 5.7 million cubic meters of gas to Moldova. The gas transit agreement between Russia and Ukraine ends at the end of 2024, after kyiv has repeatedly refused to extend the agreement, while the former Energy Minister held fruitless negotiations in St. Petersburg.