The Parliament convened in the last plenary sitting of the autumn-winter session on Friday, October 29. The parliamentary factions voiced different standpoints regarding the activity of the Parliament in 2006 and the state of affairs in Moldova. The leader of the communist faction Eugenia Ostapciuc said in her speech that the faction she heads followed in 2006 the main guide marks of its political platform and of the Moldova-EU Action Plan. According to her, one of the main activities of the current session was debating and approving the budgets for the next year. She considers that the most important event of 2007 will be the summer local general elections, “and many colleagues have already started their electoral campaign. They use the tribune of the Parliament not only for promoting innuendos against the majority faction, but also for lobbying their media bodies, and new political parties that appeared after they were elected to their offices. They act not only against their political opponents, but also against their own voters”, Ostapciuc stated. The MP qualified as “lies” the statements about the fact that President controls all the levers of power. “It is true that he has a permanent dialogue with the Parliament and the Government, but these consultations are benefic for all the state bodies”, she mentioned. On the other hand, the leader of “Moldova Noastra” Alliance, Serafim Urecheanu said that PCRM and its satellites, PPCD and PD, have definitively compromised the electoral and international commitments in 2006 and they were about to exhaust all the resources of such a fragile social-economic stability. “Had the country been left at their sweet will, Moldova would have been destroyed by now. We would have encountered serious internal misbalances, crisis in the foreign relations and halt of the pro-European policy. The rescue came from the foreign partners of Moldova who prevented the situation”. Urecheanu stated that the factions that are responsible of this state of affairs are PPCD-PCRM-PD, as well as President Vladimir Voronin who usurped the power. Referring himself to the achievements of his faction, Urecheanu said that it spared no effort in fulfilling the will of the voters. “Of course the success was relative, a natural situation for the opposition”, he said. Valentina Buliga, the representative of the Democratic Party (PDM) said that during this session the faction presented itself as a moderated and constructive force in the Parliament, which contributed to passing important laws, taking into consideration the interests of Moldova and its citizens. She mentioned in her speech that the Parliament managed to agree on issues related to the foreign policy and to the promotion of political and institutional reforms, but speaking about the economic, budgetary and social reforms, the representatives of the communist faction were less receptive to the opinions of the MPs representing the opposition factions. The Government and the majority faction have frequently ignored the proposals of the MPs of the Democrat Party. The leader of the People’s Christian Democrat Party (PPCD) Iurie Rosca said that his faction believes that all the achievements registered in what concerns the reforms and the European integration are due to the new political situation that was reached by joint efforts, political stability and partnership between the government and opposition. According to him, one of the main issues that concern the present Parliament is the reform in the broadcasting field. The Broadcasting Code was implemented on new principles. The Supervisory Board must select the candidates for all the most important offices in TRM. In this way, there are high chances that the long period of stagnation in this field that lasted for five years will end in late January, the leader of PPCD said. During those 27 plenary sittings of the autumn-winter session, the MPs adopted 168 legislative acts, of which 22 new laws. Other 50 laws, amended the present legislation, in this way contributing to the improvement of the laws, and through 10 ratification laws, Moldova joined a series of international agreements and conventions.