Politics

PARLIAMENTARY COUP COMMISSION HEARS GHEORGHE CAVCALIUC

08 octomber, 2019

The parliamentary ad hoc commission for investigation of the coup attempt organized by the Democratic Party with the help of its Constitutional Court and Prosecutor General's Office on June 8-14, 2019 today heard Gheorghe Cavcaliuc, ex-Deputy Chief of the Ministry of the Interior’s General Police Inspectorate.

Commission head MP Mihai Popsoi stated to the press afterwards that it was “a productive and open discussion – with many details”. Cavcaliuc was asked questions concerning his professional activities in the period of June 8-14 and about the orders he was receiving in those days.

The commission also interviewed Chief of the MoI Department of Special Couriers Valeriu Chemirtan and Chairman of the Prosecutors’ Association Alexandru Cladco. Popsoi said that further details will be presented in the commission’s final report to appear before the end of the year.

The parliamentary ad hoc commission sent invitations also to several Democratic Party deputies – Vladimir Cebotari (de-immunized by parliament on the request of the Prosecutor General's Office), Igor Vremea and Sergiu Sirbu, but they did not come. Meanwhile, Popsoi said, a multitude of questions have accumulated for these and other DP representatives to answer, particularly for incumbent party leader Pavel Filip “concerning the haste and grounds for railroading decisions on the dissolution of the legitimately elected Parliament and on appointing a snap parliamentary election date”.

“This way or another, the commission has already accumulated enough information, but we will be further collecting data in order to prepare a report that must clarify the events of those days”, said Mihai Popsoi. According to him, the commission is interested to hear also ex-Minister of the Interior Alexandru Jizdan and former Minister of Defense Eugen Sturza.

In those June days, upon the formation of the parliamentary PSRM-ACUM majority and the appointment of the Government of Prime Minister Maya Sandu, the Government Building, ministries and other governmental agencies were blocked by police units and the so-called ‘protesters’. The then-Constitutional Court recognized the Parliament’s decisions and actions as unlawful, and for about one week the country lived in the conditions of a diarchy, when there were two governments – the new one headed by Maia Sandu and the old one presided by Pavel Filip. The crisis resolved on June 14, when the Democratic Party, under the pressure of Moldova’s international partners, announced its stepping down from power. The new Government then received the possibility to start working in normal conditions.

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