Moldovan parliament meetings to be held in line with opposition's agenda

Chisinau, 27 April /MOLDPRES/ - The parliament’s draft agenda might contain issues put up by the parliamentary opposition on each sixth week, under a draft amendment of the parliament’s regulation, approved by the cabinet today.   

According to the notification, the report of the Venice Commission on opposition’s role in a democratic parliament reads that it is important that the minority has a word to say in setting the agenda, i. e. in choosing subjects due to be brought for discussion.  

The Venice Commission said that the establishing of the agenda by the majority, which would authorize the debates suiting the latter, would postpone or impede the other discussions, initiated by opposition, does not ensure, in fact, the effective and legitimate character of the parliamentary democracy.  

The government believes that the provisions of the draft, proposed as legislative initiative by a group of MPs, meet rulings of the Constitutional Court, in which the Court highlighted the role of the parliamentary opposition in the functioning of the democracy. At the cabinet meeting, Justice Minister Vladimir Cebotari said that the parliament today’ had voted, in the first reading, a draft law providing for the formation of the agenda of some parliament meetings by the opposition, and therefore, the two draft laws should be merged in the second reading.    

(Reporter V. Bercu, editor L. Alcaza)