Parliament does not have a clear agenda. The plenary sittings haven’t been yet arranged and the current Parliament does not represent the vote of the people, Socialist MP Vlad Batrancea stated in the public debate “Conditions and specific features of Parliament’s spring-summer session” that was staged by IPN News Agency and Radio Moldova. The MP noted that the Socialist parliamentary group in the current session will propose bills that envision the increase in the agriculture subsidization fund, extension of the list of drugs and medical services covered by the health policy and indexation of pensions two times a year.

According to Vlad Batrancea, the current legislature is nonfunctional and early parliamentary elections are thus needed. “The early elections are the task of the PSRM and the President of the Republic of Moldova,” he stated, adding that he does not agree with the way in which the legislative body works as the commissions convene ‘in corridors’ and the MPs receive the bills in the assembly hall and the ten-day period for proposing amendments is not respected. The Government is not led by Parliament, but from another office and from outside the country.

As to the work of the parliamentary groups, Vlad Batrancea said these are the basis of Parliament, but they were liquidated and disbanded.

As regards the work of the Government, the MP said this closed over 200 schools and aims to close 300 mayor’s offices. The medical services are fewer in number, while the health policy costs almost 6,000 lei a year. The people are divided because they are dissatisfied with the living standards.

He noted that the new roads in Moldova are three times dearer than in the EU because they steal that money.

Asked by the Socialist group’s attitude to the modification of the electoral system, the MP said the current system should be kept because Moldova cannot organize elections in the Transnistrian region, a large number of Moldovans are abroad and the rules should not be changed during the game.

The public debate “Conditions and specific features of Parliament’s spring-summer session” is the 70th installment of the series of debates “Developing political culture by public debates” that are staged with support from the Hanns Seidel Foundation of Germany.