Moldovan parliament to have opposition day on 25 November

Chisinau, 24 November /MOLDPRES/ - The parliament will consider draft laws initiated or proposed by the opposition on 25 November. Parliament Speaker Andrian Candu made statements to this effect following a meeting of the parliament’s Standing Bureau today.

The speaker said that the parliament’s agenda would include more complex subjects. “It will contain also drafts coming from the government, which are regarded as urgent and relate to the budgetary and tax policy. Also, the parliament on 25 November will examine a topic on Constitution’s amendment in terms of the role of the Superior Council of Prosecutors and appointment of the prosecutor general by the head of state,” Andrian Candu said.  

At the same time, Candu noted that, at the end of the meeting, parliament hearings would take place on the subject of bank fraud, inquiry and recovery of assets. “Governor of the National Bank of Moldova Sergiu Cioclea and Acting Prosecutor General Eduard Harunjen will speak before the plenum. They will unveil up-to-date information on everything concerning the investigation of bank fraud and will answer MPs’ questions,” Candu said.

On 28 July 2016, lawmakers made amendments to the parliament’s regulation, according to which the Standing Bureau will compile the agenda of the meeting with the inclusion of issues proposed by the parliament’s opposition for the first plenary meeting of each sixth week after the beginning of the parliamentary session. At the concerned meetings, the proposals by non-affiliated MPs of the opposition may account for no more than ten per cent of the draft agenda of the plenary meetings.   

(Reporter A. Plitoc, editor M. Jantovan)