CHISINAU (Reuters) -Moldovan Prime Minister Dorin Recean said on Monday he would not seek a new term, paving the way for a new head of government following the pro-Western governing party’s victory in a parliamentary election.

President Maia Sandu’s Party of Action and Solidarity (PAS) secured a majority in the election on September 28, and will appoint a new government in coming weeks tasked with taking former Soviet republic Moldova further out of Russia’s orbit.

The pro-EU Recean, in office since February 2023, said he would also give up his parliamentary seat with PAS as part of his expected departure, and return to the private sector when a new government is in place.

“My term ends simultaneously with that of the current government’s,” he told a joint press conference with parliame

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