CHISINAU, Moldova — On Friday, Natalia Gavrilita was a director at an aid group in London. On Saturday, she was unexpectedly named minister of finance in her native Moldova. There’s just one hitch: Her predecessor won’t leave, and the police won’t let her enter her office. But the latter, the Democratic Party of Moldova, has refused to leave office — leaving the country with two claimants to every ministry. “We have a former prime minister who is refusing to leave.”The chaos has been compounded by the Constitutional Court, staffed in part by longtime associates of the Democratic Party leader, the oligarch Vladimir Plahotniuc.

Source: New York Times June 10, 2019 23:15 UTC