In late March 1918, he represented the Alexandru Marghiloman government in Chișinău, during the time after the February and October Revolutions when Bessarabia had proclaimed itself a "Moldavian Democratic Republic" — he was charged with assisting Ion Inculeț in proposing a union of Bessarabia and Romania in "Sfatul Țării", the republic's legislative assembly. After prolonged debates, the vote was carried in favor of union on March 27 ("see Greater Romania").