Politics

PARLIAMENTARY COMMUNIST FACTION REMAINS WITH ONLY 6 DEPUTIES

15 december, 2017

The parliamentary faction of the Moldovan Communist Party (MCP) now has only 6 deputies, faction chairperson Inna Supac stated at the parliament plenary meeting on Friday.

Last week, Communist MP Ocsana Domenti retired from the Parliament and stated she was leaving politics at all. According to the law, a vacant mandate goes to the next person on the party’s electoral ticket. The next name on the MCP ticket is Aliona Babiuc, the former Chairperson of the Briceni Raion organization of the Communist Party. However, in December 2015 she was expelled from the Communist Party “for violating the MCP Charter, which was expressed in her failure to take measures to consolidate the ideological and organizational unity of the MCP in the Briceni Raion”.

“In this connection, the MCP faction expelled Aliona Babiuc from its ranks, so our faction has remained with only 6 parliamentarians”, explained Inna Supac.

In her turn, Aliona Babiuc, whose parliamentary mandate was approved by the Constitutional Court last Wednesday, stated in the Parliament that she had received this mandate “from the people of Moldova, legitimately, in the course of a parliamentary election”.

“I was expelled from the MCP by some people who represent God knows whom in the party because the MCP Political Executive Committee has been abandoned by most of true Communists. I promise to work in the Parliament in the interests of the country and the people”, stated Aliona Babiuc.

Following Ocsana Domenti’s retirement, the MCP leadership notified the Central Election Commission about Babiuc’s expulsion and demanded to introduce a change in the ticket of MCP candidates. However, according to the law it is impossible to make changes in party tickets after elections. That’s why the CEC refused to make the requested change and confirmed Aliona Babiuc’s candidacy.

The Communist faction had 21 MPs after the 2014 election. However, at the end of 2015 fourteen Communists quitted the faction and joined the Democratic Party-led parliamentary majority. All the 14 were expelled from the Moldovan Communist Party then.

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