Moldova got a new Constitutional Court today. All the 6 judges have been sworn in on Friday in the Parliament in presence of president.

President Igor Dodon reminded that the head of state has no right to order Prosecutor General to withdraw parliamentary immunity from any of MPs. He said this as commentary to the Shor Party’s statements that the de-immunization of Ilan Shor would be president’s personal revenge.

The Government knows that the society wants rapid changes and the country leadership wants the same, but it must be understood that reforms are a difficult process, said Prime Minister Maia Sandu.

President of Moldova will participate in several international forums in September. He told about this on public television on Thursday evening.

The Parliament of Moldova deprived MP Ilan Shor of his deputy immunity on Thursday evening by votes of MPs from the ruling majority and the Democratic Party. Only several deputies from the Shor Party voted against.

At the Thursday’s extraordinary sitting, the Parliament adopted the law on returning to the proportional system of elections, initiated by the parliamentary majority after the change of power, in the final reading.

Leaders of the ACUM bloc Prime Minister Maia Sandu and Deputy Premier, Minister of the Interior Andrei Nastase stated that the new agreement with the Party of Socialists (PSRM) will be concluded immediately after the sides achieve consensus in the field of justice reform.

The European Union evaluates each partner on the basis of facts, but not just statements, said Ambassador Peter Michalko, Head of the European Union Delegation to Moldova.

President Igor Dodon said at a briefing after the Wednesday’s sitting of the Supreme Security Council that it would be logic to sign the new agreement between the Party of Socialists and the ACUM bloc already next week.

Once the Government Action Plan for the next period is signed, there will be no obstacles for signing a new agreement between ACUM and the PSRM with clearly established priorities, said MP Mihai Popsoi of the Party of Action and Solidarity (PAS), commenting on the Socialists’ proposal to sign a new agreement with ACUM.

MP of the Democratic Party, Acting Chairman Pavel Filip stated that for DP it was a great shock to get into opposition.

The parliamentary commission on investigating the legality of privatizing state property in the period of former governments’ rule disclosed the names of officials, against which the Prosecutor General’s Office (PGO) may start investigations on the case of Chisinau airport concession.

Expert Vladimir Socor of the Jamestown Foundation (USA) maintains that the ruling coalition must urgently conclude a new agreement of cooperation.

Next week, the Moldovan Government will discuss the establishment of a Bureau for struggle against corruption and for judiciary reform to function under the Prime Minister’s auspices, Premier Sandu announced on Friday at a briefing she convened due to the Superior Council of Prosecutors’ decision to hold a contest for appointing Moldova’s Prosecutor General.

Deputy Speaker Alexandru Slusari, who heads the parliamentary ad hoc commission on the investigation of the one-billion-dollar bank fraud, was shocked to learn the official answer of the Prosecutor General's Office about the investigation progress.

The previous Speaker of the Moldovan Parliament, Deputy Chairman of the Democratic Party MP Andrian Candu should be deprived of his parliamentary immunity and should brought to stand criminal responsibility for a bank fraud, believes incumbent Deputy Speaker Alexandru Slusari, Chairman of the parliamentary ad hoc commission on the investigation of the one-billion-dollar bank fraud.

On Thursday, Moldovan Prime Minister Maya Sandu published in the social networks her appeal to party comrades, civil society activists and all citizens of the country to comment on the information, circulating in the republic, that the governing ACUM-PSRM alliance has allegedly cracked.

The Party of Socialists is insisting on an immediate signing, next week at the latest, of a political agreement with ACUM bloc in order to prescribe distinctly the tasks and objectives of the country’s domestic and foreign policy and to exclude in the future situations creating big risks for country governance, MP Vlad Batrincea, the PSRM Executive Secretary and parliamentary Socialist faction chairman, wrote on his Facebook page.

Corruption has become a dominating system of social relations in Moldova, and you cannot find even a single place or sphere in the country without corruption, historian and anthropologist Mark Tkachuk, a former Adviser to ex-president Vladimir Voronin and ex-Member of the Parliament, stated on the local television last night.

Moldovan legal experts are offering differing opinions on the initiating by the Prosecutor General's Office of a criminal litigation on charges of usurpation of power in Moldova in June 2019.