The Moldovan Parliament on Tuesday voted the censure motion against the coalition government headed by Prime Minister Vlad Filat, leader of the Liberal Democratic Party.

According to news reaching here, the vote of no confidence was expressed by 54 deputies - the opposition Communist faction, the ruling Democrats and a few non-affiliated MPs.

The prime minister's Liberal Democratic Party voted against the resignation, while the other ruling party, the Liberals did not take part in the voting.

According to the Constitution, the motion's adoption supposes 51 votes in favor in the 101-seat parliament.

The non-confidence motion was put forward last Thursday by the Parliament's largest but oppositional Communist faction, who said that the government is sunk in scandals and corruption, while the ministers were involved in crime schemes.

"The government dismissal means a complicated process, waste of time, and uncertainty," said Filat after the Parliament's voting for the government dismissal, stressing that early election are a major threat for Moldova.

Filat claimed that he was dismissed for calling spade a spade and the real reason for the government fall is his stance to the tragic hunting incident which happened in Domneasca Forest on Dec. 23, 2012.

The ruling Alliance for European Integration has experienced some trouble amid misunderstandings between the leaders of alliance consisting of the Liberal Party, the Democrat Party and the Liberal-Democrat Party, their discord bursting to the surface at the beginning of the new year when the "Huntgate" scandal involving government officials was exposed by a civil activist.

Filat called for the resignation of Prosecutor General Valeriu Zubko, an appointee of the Democrats, as the latter took part in an illegal hunt party in which a businessman was shot dead but Zubko and other participants chose to keep the crime secret.

As retaliation, state prosecutors launched corruption investigations into three government ministers, all of them appointees of Filat.

According to legislation, Filat has to present the cabinet's resignation in three days. Later, the president of Moldova enters into consultations with parliamentary factions and proposes to the Parliament a candidacy for a new prime minister. The president has the right to propose a candidacy 3 times over a period of 45 days.

If the Parliament does not approve a new prime minister, then the president dissolves the Parliament and appoints the date of early parliamentary elections.