Moldovan Democratic Party might initiate referendum for including syntagm "European integration" in Constitution
13:06 | 18.10.2018 Category: Political
Chisinau, 18 October /MOLDPRES/ - The Democratic Party of Moldova (PDM) considers possibility of initiating a referendum for including the syntagm “European integration” in the Constitution. Parliament Speaker Andrian Candu made statements to this effect at a parliament meeting today.
According to Candu, the today’s failure does not belong to the Democrats, but is a failure of the political establishment and of the country, which had chance to create a European future.
“We reserve the right to analyze possibility to initiate the organization of a referendum for the European integration. It would be good for this referendum to be held on the same day with the parliamentary elections, in order to save money. Yet, we will return to how precisely we will do this after the ruling by the Constitutional Court on possibility to organize a referendum during parliamentary polls. What is certain is that we will not give up the idea of European integration and amendment of the Constitution on the subject of European integration,” Candu said.
The speaker also said that the subject on organizing a plebiscite had been widely discussed at a PDM meeting this week. “The colleagues understand the importance of the subject and that we cannot renounce just for the mere fact that some MPs of the parties regarded as pro-European did not vote,” Candu added.
Today, the draft on completion of Moldova’s Constitution with provisions establishing the European integration vector as strategic goal of the country’s development failed to get 67 votes needed to be adopted in the final reading. This happened, after the lawmakers of the factions of the Liberal Democratic Party and Liberal Party had walked out of the session hall and the MPs of the Party of Communists and Party of Socialists had boycotted the voting.
The draft on amendment of the Fundamental Law belongs to a group of lawmakers of the parliamentary coalition. It was elaborated by a working group, which involved in its activity experts, representatives of the competent academic environment and public authorities.
Under the legislation in force, the votes of at least two thirds of all the number of MPs are necessary in order to amend the Constitution.
(Reporter A. Zara, editor M. Jantovan)
