Opposition wants parliamentary commission to investigate April 7 events
The parliamentary group of the Moldova Noastra Alliance put forward a legislative initiative providing for the creation of a parliamentary commission that will investigate the April 7 events, Info-Prim Neo reports.
The draft legislative initiative was submitted at Tuesday’s plenary sitting of the Parliament after the Speaker and deputy speakers were elected.
But Speaker Vladimir Voronin demanded the Opposition groups propose persons that will be included in the state commission for the investigation of the April 7 events. “You promised us you will field these candidates, you promised to present them to the European Union. One month has passed since April 7 and you submitted no proposal yet,” Voronin said.
The president of the Liberal Democratic Party Vlad Filat replied: “This state commission set up by presidential decree is anticonstitutional and we will prove this, including through court. The members of this commission cannot disclose the truth to the Moldovan society and the international public opinion. We do not recognize this commission and will not put up candidates to make it legal.”
“The state commission created by the President of Moldova to examine the April 7 events is tendentious, anticonstitutional and illegal,” the leader of the Liberal Party Mihai Ghimpu said.
On April 21, the outgoing President of Moldova Vladimir Voronin ordered the creation of a commission that “will determine the causes, conditions and consequences of the events that took place in Chisinau on April 7 and 8.” The Communist MP Vladimir Turcan was named as the commission’s chairman. The commission was to present its conclusions at the first sitting of the Parliament on May 5. But it did not do it. Asked by the reporters, Vladimir Voronin explained that the commission’s report depends on the investigation carried out by the General Prosecutor’s Office.