OFFICIAL MOLDOVAN DELEGATION TO TAKE PART IN SOLEMN PARLIAMENT SITTING IN BUCHAREST ON MARCH 27

An official delegation of the Moldovan Parliament and Government will take part in the official meeting of the Parliament of Romania next Tuesday on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Great Unification of Bessarabia and Romania.

Parliament Chairman Andrian Candu said at a news conference on Friday morning that the Moldovan delegation will include "the representatives of all the parties that have expressed wish to go to Bucharest" - the Democratic Party, the European People's Party, the Liberal Democratic Party, and a delegation from the Moldovan Government.

Candu said he would take floor at the solemn session - alongside with President of Romania Klaus Iohannis, the Chairpersons of both Chambers of the Romanian Parliament, Princess Margaret and other officials.

Andrian Candu voiced surprise that deputies from the parliamentary Liberal Party faction, known as ardent-most advocates of Moldova-Romania unification, had refused to go to Bucharest as members of the Moldovan parliamentary delegation. As for the Left forces - the Communist Party and Party of Socialists, their refusal to go seems to have stunned nobody, for they condemn the holding of whatever events related to the 100th anniversary.

"Unfortunately, I cannot understand until now why the Liberals have rejected the Romanian Parliament's invitation to come", said the Moldovan Speaker.

Asked why the Moldovan Parliament has refused to hold an anniversary solemn meeting in Chisinau, Andrian Candu replied: "There many reasons for that. These are questions of organization, and of logistic, and an electoral context. But we are happy that our Bucharest colleagues are organizing such an event".

As was already reported by Infotag, the Liberal Party had long demanded to hold an anniversary meeting exactly in Chisinau. However, yesterday the Democratic Parliament Speaker Candu refused even to include the Liberals' demand into the plenary agenda. Offended, the Liberals left the session room, and their leader Mihai Ghimpu stated the Liberals would return to the Parliament "only after a second Unification of Moldova and Romania".

On that, MP Marian Lupu of the ruling Democratic Party said: "As far as I can understand, we will never see our Liberal Party colleagues in this room: they are not going to return until Moldova's new unification with Romania. But there shall be no unification. Never".