MP Mihai Popșoi resigned from the post of chairman of the commission of inquiry into the anticonstitutional putsch attempted by the Democratic Party through the agency of the Constitutional Court and the Prosecutor General’s Office, IPN reports.

On a social networking site, Mihai Popșoi wrote he took such a decision because a new parliamentary majority was recently formed and the main players of the anticonstitutional putsch (ex-judges of the Constitutional Court) refused to come to the hearings. This hampers the efforts to discover the truth about the events of this June.

He encouraged the members of the commission, MPs Vasile Bolea and Grigore Novac, to complete the investigation launched by Vladimir Țurcan, the first chairman of the commission of inquiry. He noted he will provide an alternative report in a news conference immediately after the future chairman presents a report.

The commission of inquiry was set up by Parliament on June 18 after the state institutions had been blocked for a week, during June 7-14, following the formation of a parliamentary majority and the Sandu Government by the PSRM and ACUM. The Constitutional Court ruled the Parliament’s actions to form the new parliamentary majority were illegal and two governments, one led by Maia Sandu and the other one led by Pavel Filip, worked in parallel. On June 14, the PDM announced it decided to withdraw from power. Later, the Constitutional Court annulled the decisions it took in the period.