Politics

RULING COALITION AGAIN VOTE FOR LAWS DECLINED BY PRESIDENT

21 september, 2017

The Moldovan parliamentary majority has overridden the presidential veto by voting once again for most of the 12 laws rejected by the head of state after their initial approval by the majority at the end of the last Spring-Summer Session.

Among the 8 ‘survivors’ are the Laws on struggle against terrorism, on the reform of the Moldovan Academy of Sciences, on energy, on meal tickets, on amendments to the Labor Code, on state awards, and some other. The repeated adoption of the president-declined laws was supported by merely 55 deputies of the 101-member Parliament of Moldova.

For instance, the Law on struggle against terrorism stipulates reduction of the president’s plenary powers in the field of such struggle and of directing corresponding state agencies, including the Information and Security Service (ISS, formerly – the KGB). According to this DP-railroaded law, a greater part of the presidential plenary powers in this sensitive sphere will now go over to the parliament speaker.

Speaker Candu expressed satisfaction with “such an operative work done by the Parliament”. He said these laws will be sent to the president for promulgation once again. According to the law, upon a second receiving of the re-adopted laws, the head of state must promulgate them.

On Thursday, the extraordinary plenary meeting of the Moldovan Parliament was boycotted by all the factions that do not belong to the DP-led ruling coalition. The opposition forces stated that at convoking the plenary meeting, its initiators [Democrats] grossly violated the legislation and the Parliament’s Rules of Procedure, and that “the Democratic Party has usurped state power in the country”.

Candu stated to journalists after the session: “Well, this is their right. The opposition decided to resort to such a political gesture upon realizing that they have no arguments in their support and that the parliamentary majority would repeatedly vote for the said laws. We have a political agenda of our own that has been agreed on with our development partners and is aimed at realization of the EU-Moldova Association Agreement”.

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