Prime Minister-designate Ion Sturza and candidates for minister signed integrity statements on Sunday, January 3. Text of the declaration includes a number of criteria of integrity that were worked out by several active Moldovan NGOs in anti-corruption, including the Center for Investigative Journalism. Prime Minister-designate Ion Sturza claims that he proposed to the candidates for minister to sign an integrity statement on their own account because transparency and integrity are important for a functional administration.

"I want a government that would be the expression of the people’s will through its representatives in Parliament. The Republic of Moldova is not today in a happy period of flourishing democracy, it faces with a deep moral, political and economic crisis. Patriots, upright and professional people - these are the criteria used to select my team. I wanted a politically unaffiliated government", said Ion Sturza.

Prime Minister-designate and each of the 17 candidates proposed for minister declared that:

- has clean criminal and tax record, has not been condemned and is not under accusation in country or abroad;

- has not committed acts of corruption and has not favored the corruption;

- has not committed traffic of influence;

- has no patrimony which cannot be justified;

- has not flagrantly infringed the public ethics and morality;

- has not collaborated with the secret services of other states;

- did not collaborate with the secret services of state;

-provided accurate data in CV;

- has finished studies at a known institution in country and/or abroad;

- has not made discriminatory, xenophobic and racial declarations.

Each candidate for minister has declared that the data and information in this statement are true and they will continue to meet the requirements outlined above throughout their activity if they are appointed. They said they were aware of the fact that if they take actions or if information is revealed about them which contravenes to the criteria mentioned above, they will resign or accept their dismissal.

The candidates for minister proposed by Ion Sturza are:

First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs– Victor Chirila

Deputy Prime - Minister for Reintegration– Ion Stavila

Minister of Finance – Ion Munteanu

Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Labor, Social Protection and Family– Dona Școla

Minister of Economy – Marin Ciobanu

Minister of Education – Loreta Handrabura

Minister of Justice – Stanislav Pavlovschi

Minister of Internal Affairs– Alexandru Stoianoglo

Minister of Defense – Viorel Cibotaru

Minister of Regional Development and Constructions– Svetlana Dogotaru

Minister of Agriculture – Alexandru Slusari

Minister of Transportation and Road Infrastructure– Oleg Tofilat

Minister of Environment – Andrei Ursache

Minister of Information Technology and Communication– Alexandru Machedon.

Minister of Culture – Veaceslav Reabcinschii

Minister of Health– Ala Nemerenco

Minister of Youth and Sport– Dumitru Alaiba

Civil society's representatives welcomed the criteria unveiled by Ion Sturza, stressing that they would develop a formula of cooperation with the government, in order to improve the integrity steps.

After the president had nominated the candidacy of Ion Sturza for the premiership on 21 December, on the next day, the prime minister-designate started consultations with all parliamentary factions. Ion Sturza will unveil the government action program and his new cabinet of ministers in the Moldovan parliament on 4 January 2016.