Leadership of Moldovan parliament, government broach parliamentary priorities for autumn session

Chisinau, 11 September /MOLDPRES/ - The parliament's priorities for the autumn session were discussed at a joint meeting of the leadership of the parliament and government today. The meeting was chaired by Parliament Speaker Andrian Candu and Prime Minister Valeriu Strelet. Attending the event were the leadership of legislative body and cabinet, as well as the heads of the standing commissions, the parliament's communication and public relations department has reported.

The talks were focused on the synchronisation of actions at parliamentary and governmental levels, in order to carry out the parliament's action programme as to implementing commitments taken within the Moldova-EU Association Agreement.

The parliament's autumn session priorities, announced by the speaker, include radical and sustainable reforms to improve the living conditions of citizens, namely the justice reform and fighting corruption, financial and banking system reform and business environment development, adoption of the agricultural package and legal amendments in the audiovisual area. Andrian Candu emphasised that a string of draft laws were to be examined by the parliament first and foremost till 19 October, when a meeting of the Moldova-EU Association Council is to be held in Chisinau; the participants in the meeting will assess the progress recorded by Moldova in enforcing the Association Agreement.

”We have to speed up domestic procedures, so that priority bills be included on the agenda of plenary meetings. The parliament and government will coordinate and synchronise activities as to agenda of normative acts related to implementation of the Association Agreement,” Candu said.

Strelet presented a list including 33 draft laws to be examined and adopted  by the parliament first and foremost during the autumn session. At the same time, Valeriu Strelet specified that the government would also submit to parliament a string of bills initiated based on the government's action programme.

”The speed of the legislative process will be increasing continuously. The number of draft laws which come and are to come from the government will be in a continuous flow, as we have set all landmarks,” Strelet said.

The meeting's agenda also included issues of strengthening the communication between the parliament and government, in order to optimise the legal process.

(Editor A. Raileanu)