Representatives of the European People’s Party (PPEM) on September 28 signed a bill to voluntarily renounce immunity. The document was submitted to the Parliament’s secretariat, IPN reports.

The bill regulates the legal procedure for voluntarily renouncing the parliamentary immunity. Under it, the MPs inform the prosecution bodies and the courts of law that they agree to performing all the legal procedures needed to investigate and hold them accountable if they commit or become involved in offenses.

“Given that there are many suspicions in society about the involvement of the political class in the stealing of money from the banking system and that we should not hide behind the parliamentary immunity, we drafted this bill in a move to stimulate the law enforcement bodies to be more insistent when they investigate such cases. By this initiative, we want to give them more freedom of action and to encourage them to be more incisive in this regard,” said the party’s leader Iurie Leanca.

Members of the PPEM noted that the situation in Moldova is now very difficult: on the one hand, there are non-functional, politicized institutions that cannot objectively and transparently fulfill their duties; on the other hand, there are the MPs who are protected by the immunity mechanism that hampers the process of investigating all the cases involving lawmakers. “We lend a hand to the law enforcement bodies so as to ease the investigation process. We also call on our colleagues from Parliament, those who say it loudly that they are not involved in cases of corruption and thefts and do not break the law, to voluntarily renounce the immunity,” stated the party’s member Eugen Carp.

The bill refers only to the composition of the current legislative body.