A number of civil society organizations call on Parliament to respect decisional transparency and to refrain from examining bills as matters of urgency “without a plausible justification”, IPN reports.

The request was formulated after Parliament came together for an extraordinary sitting on August 13. The agenda included the adoption of eight bills, most of which address issues with an important impact, such as the method of choosing the NAC director, amendments to the legation on NIA and the prosecution service. They are put to the vote shortly after being registered, without public consultations (except for the bill on NIA) and without a reasonable justification for such a hurry. Seven of the eight bills were registered in Parliament fewer than ten days ago.

The signatories ask Parliament to organize authentic and inclusive public consultations on the aforementioned bills, by strictly obeying the legislation on transparency in decision making or confidence in the newly elected Parliament will be eroded.

So far the call was signed by 13 organizations, but the list remains open. The call was signed by the Legal Resources Center from Moldova, “WatchDog.MD” Community, the Association for Participatory Democracy “ADEPT”, the Association for Efficient and Responsible Governance, the Institute for European Policies and Reforms, the Center for the Analysis and Prevention of Corruption, “Promo-LEX” Association,  Amnesty International Moldova,  the Foreign Policy Association, the Center  of Policies and Reforms, East Europe Foundation, “Acces-info” Center, and the Independent Think Tank “Expert-Grup”.

The document was sent to Parliament Speaker Igor Grosu and other decision makers of the legislature.