Moldovan parliament speaker meets PACE monitoring committee co-rapporteurs

Chisinau, 23 February /MOLDPRES/ - The implementation of reforms in Moldova and rapprochement with the European Union represented the focus of a today’s meeting between Parliament Speaker Andrian Candu and the co-rapporteurs of the Monitoring Committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), Valentina Leskaj and Ogmundur Jonasson, the parliament’s communication and media relations department has reported.

The officials exchanged opinions on the social, political and economic evolutions in Moldova, work of the democratic institutions and immediate actions of the country’s advancement in implementation of reforms.

Andrian Candu referred to the priorities of the parliament’s spring session – important legislative packages through which Moldova is to overcome a string of challenges it is facing. According to the speaker, the most important roadmap for Moldova is the Association Agreement and the Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Agreement.  

”We have prepared about 50 draft legislative acts for discussions and approval for the first parliament meetings of the spring session, among which the financial and banking package, energy package, integrity package. There is an important agenda of reforms, which contains amendments on which we have agreed with development partners. Just at the first parliament meeting, we are to approve the law on Prosecution in the second reading. Till the end of this session, the parliament is set to adopt also the legislation connected to the law on Prosecution, in order to carry through the reform of Prosecution,” Andrian Candu said.    

The parliament speaker also highlighted the importance to speed up the justice reform. Andrian Candu reiterated the authorities’ determination to implement the recommendations by the EU’s justice mission, underway in Moldova at present, the goal of which is to check the institutional efficiency of the law-enforcement bodies. The EU justice mission’s conclusions and recommendations will be formulated this spring.

The co-rapporteurs of the PACE Monitoring Committee encouraged the Moldovan authorities to work out and implement the needed reforms to improve the citizens’ living standards.

A subject of the discussion was the conditions of preventive detention of the former prime minister, MP Vlad Filat and ex-lawmaker Grigore Petrenco.

The co-rapporteurs of the Monitoring Committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, Valentina Leskaj and Ogmundur Jonasson, are on a 22-23 February fact-collecting visit to Moldova.

(Editor A. Raileanu)