Presidents of Moldova and Azerbaijan Igor Dodon and Ilham Aliyev discussed the opportunity of conducting a sitting of the Moldova-Azerbaijan Inter-Governmental Commission for Trade and Economic Cooperation in autumn. The Moldovan President wrote about this on his page in Facebook.

Moldova should listen to recommendations of Council of Europe’s Venice Commission experts. On this depends the allocation of macrofinancial assistance worth 100 million euros, promised by the EU, said Commissioner for European Neighborhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations, Johannes Hahn at the Wednesday’s press conference on the results of meeting with Moldovan Prime Minister, Deputy Chairman of Democratic Party of Moldova Pavel Filip in Brussels.

Member of the European Parliament Cristian Preda of Romania believes that “in the current situation, the wisest decision for Moldova would be to revoke from parliament the [Democratic Party’s] bill on changing electoral system in Moldova”.

A public debate on the disputable question of changing electoral system in Moldova was held on Wednesday in Comrat, the administrative center of the southern Moldovan autonomous region of Gagauzia. The event was organized by the Promo-Lex Association.

Prominent Moldovan man of business and the Mayor of Orhei town Ilan Shor has been sentenced to 7.5 years to be served in a usual-regime jail, as per the judgment made on Wednesday by the Court of Chisinau, which pleaded Shor guilty of his involvement in the embezzlement of approximately US$400 million equivalent from three Moldovan banks.

Moldovan President Igor Dodon has formulated 4 principal conditions, on which the Party of Socialists will support the country’s transition to the mixed electoral system.

The Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Hungary to Moldova, Matyas Szilagyi, was decorated with the Republic of Moldova's Ordinul de Onoare, as per the presidential decree signed by the head of state, Igor Dodon.

The Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Poland to Moldova, Artur Michalski, has been decorated with the Ordinul de Onoare as per the presidential decree signed by Igor Dodon.

Deputy Chairman of the Partidul Nostru (Our Party) Dumitru Ciubasenco, a prominent Moldovan journalist and publisher in the recent past, is convinced that the Party of Socialists and its de-facto leader, President Igor Dodon are parasitizing on the popularity rating of Our Party Chairman Renato Usatii.

Speaker of the Parliament Andrian Candu pointed at the fact that the voting system change is currently supported by more Moldovan citizens than the European integration at the moment of the EU-Moldova Association Agreement signing.

The Venice Commission of the Council of Europe gave a critical assessment to the bills on changing the electoral system in Moldova and on investing the President of Moldova with additional plenary powers. The Commission formulated their opinion in a press release on the results of their sitting held on June 16 called: “Moldova: Plans to reform the electoral system and presidential powers critically assessed by the Venice Commission”.

The bill on changing the Moldovan electoral system shall be approved before the end of the current Spring-Summer Session of the Parliament i.e. by the end of July, Parliament Chairman Andrian Candu stated in the Chisinau International Airport last Saturday upon his arrival from Venice, where he attended a meeting of the Venice Commission of the Council of Europe.

Norway will continue supporting Moldova’s efforts on modernizing and promoting priority reforms, said Norwegian Foreign Minister Borge Brende, receiving Moldovan Deputy Premier, Minister of Foreign Affairs and European Integration Andrei Galbur in Oslo on Friday.

Moldovan Constitutional Court ex-Chairman Alexandru Tanase is representing the Republic of Moldova in the Venice Commission of the Council of Europe. At the Commission’s session Friday, he is defending the bill on Moldova’s transition to the mixed electoral system [from the current proportional representation system].

Moldovan President Igor Dodon and the Party of Socialists [PSRM, which he had headed until December 2016, when he became president of the republic] have spoken out categorically against the reform of local governance organs, the head of state wrote on his Facebook page, commenting on the Prime Minister Pavel Filip’s statement that the pro-European governing majority are projecting an optimization of local self-governance organs.

The opposition Moldovan Communist Party regards the Democratic Party’s desire to ban what they call “Russian propaganda” to be nothing but “a part of the joint game played by the Democratic Party and the Party of Socialists”.

The parliamentary Liberal faction shall not put signatures under the draft Resolutions on a vote of no confidence in the Filip Government put forward one by the Party of Socialists and the other one, earlier, by the Liberal Democratic Party and the Communist Party.

Moldovan President Igor Dodon has reminded that a part of the present-day Romania used to be "Moldovan land" in the 19th century. The head of state wrote this on his Facebook page after he and his advisers had laid flowers to the bust to outstanding poet Mihai Eminescu in the Alley of the Classics in the Central Public Garden of Chisinau on Thursday morning. The poet passed away 128 years ago today.

Moldovan President Igor Dodon and Ambassador Pirkka Tapiola, Head of the European Union Delegation to the Republic of Moldova, met on Wednesday to discuss questions of Moldova’s domestic and external policy.

The Party of Socialists stood categorically against the attempt of the DP and its satellites to prohibit the broadcasting of Russian news and analytical TV programs.