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PARLIAMENT DEPRIVES CONSUMERS OF RIGHT TO DEFEND THEMSELVES – GUTUL
The Parliament of Moldova has in fact deprived citizens of the possibility to defend their consumer rights, Petru Gutul, Chairman of the all-republican “Consumer Protection” citizens’ association, stated at a news conference in Infotag today.
Last December 23, the Moldovan Parliament abolished Article 28 in the Law on Consumer Right Protection. The article stipulated various sanctions against violators.
Nadezhda Trubitsina of the organization believes that the changes, made recently in the said Law, were designed specially to legitimize lawlessness for and by monopolists that supply low-quality utility services at overrated tariffs.
“Our organization will thus be unable to protect consumers’ rights or punish the violators”, she stressed.
Petru Gutul further held that, for instance, he has been trying for two days now to talk to Deputy Minister of Justice Oleg Efrim so as to hear his explanation of the recent changes in the Law.
The organization is now going to protest against the law amendments concerned, and to send the protest to the Chairperson of the parliamentary Communist Party faction, Maria Postoico, with a request to send it to the Constitutional Court.
Gutul promised to do all he can “to have no such parliament in the future… For the sake of protecting consumer rights, I shall set citizens associations into motion or shall establish a new party to be called “For the Renaissance of Moldova””.
