Composer Eugen Doga, the president of the Constitutional Court Alexandru Tanase and Moldova’s Ambassador to the U.S. Igor Munteanu are some of the personalities that the Liberal Party (PL) considers as suitable candidates for the presidency. Related statements were made by the party’s first deputy chairman, Mayor of Chisinau Dorin Chirtoaca in a program on the public TV channel Moldova 1 on Monday evening, Info-Prim Neo reports. He denied that they earlier discussed the candidacy of politician Vasile Nedelciuc, as the press reported. Dorin Chirtoaca reiterated that an apolitical head of state cannot exist as the President occupies one of the three most important posts in the state. “The Head of Parliament, the Prime Minister and the President of the country are the first three persons focusing on politics in Moldova. The President has powers related to the foreign policy. How can an apolitical head of state deal with the foreign policy? The President represents the state. He is not elected to sit on a chair and sign documents,” he stated. The PL’s first deputy chairman believes the head of state has not been yet elected because there was no such a wish. “Nobody benefits from this and maybe some of the colleagues will understand this,” said Dorin Chirtoaca, without giving details. According to him, a referendum to amend the Constitution so as to simplify the procedure for electing the President should have been held after July 2009. The Alliance for European Integration announced such a plebiscite will take place by the end of this April, but later abandoned this idea. The date of the presidential elections is to be set in the Parliament’s first sitting of the spring-summer session. Earlier the same day, the leader of the PL Mihai Ghimpu told a news conference that the Liberal Party renounced the post of Speaker and the right to field a candidate for the presidency.