About 30 bills were passed in the last sitting of the Parliament’s spring-summer session on July 12. The sitting lasted for about 14 hours and ended close to the midnight. The lawmakers dismissed and appointed a number of persons to important posts, IPN reports.
The legislature discharged Victor Parlicov from the post of National Agency for Energy Regulation director general and named former deputy minister of economy Sergiu Ciobanu in his place. The deputy head of the Audit Office Tudor Soitu was discharged, while Ion Sturzu was removed from the post of Audit Office member and named as vice governor of the National Bank of Moldova. Aureliu Cincilei will serve as the second vice governor.
Among the bills adopted in the last sitting is the bill on the ratification of the agreement with the Japan International Cooperation Agency on the lending of US$60 million to the Government of Moldova for medical services. By another decision, there were ratified two financing agreements with the European Investment Bank and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development for carrying out works to build and rehabilitate roads to the value of €300 million.
In the last sitting, the MPs also passed, in the final reading, the bill on the denationalization of public property, which provides for the removal of 60 companies from the list of property that cannot be privatized. Another bill adopted stipulates that the MPs’ absence from sittings in protest at a bill will be considered justified. The bill on the foreigners’ regime of stay in Moldova, which ensures control on the Transnistrian segment, will be examined in final reading in the next session, at the suggestion of Speaker Igor Corman.
At the end of the sitting, MP Sergiu Sarbu announced that he joined the Democratic Party. The meeting didn’t end with the speeches of faction heads, as usual. The member of the group of Liberal reformers Ion Hadarca wished his colleagues a nice vacation and replied to the Communists, who made a number of statements about him, with a sarcastic poem. The leader of the Democratic Party Marian Lupu confirmed journalists’ allegations that some of the MPs were inebriated in the last sitting.
The MPs will go on annual leave on July 15. The Parliament’s bodies will resume work on August 17.
