The majority Communist MPs rejected, on Thursday, February 28, more proposals of the opposition to call in Government representatives or to take stance as to more events under way in Moldova now, Info-Prim-Neo reports. The Social-Democrat leader, Dumitru Braghiş, called for the Government’s representatives to provide explanations and solutions related to the frequent and more and more costly condemnations of Moldova by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR). He mentioned the recent case „Oferta Plus vs. Moldova” in which the Government had been obliged to pay over 2.5 mln euros, but also other cases of this type that were to be published soon. The MP warned one could reach the situation when the damages paid would equal Moldova’s budget. Speaker Marian Lupu said the Parliament was likely to start, in mid-March, parliamentary hearings and the first issue would envisage the situation of the judicial system, particularly stressing on Moldova’s cases at the ECHR. The “Moldova Noastra” Alliance MP, Leonid Bujor, reiterated an older proposal that the Parliament should adopt an appeal addressed to all the power branches to insure the right to free expression and not to admit the violation of the journalists’ right to freely express opinions different from the ones of the parliamentary majority. What has happened lately proves the proposal was correct and necessary and its realisation could make it possible that all structures observe the media’s right, he said. Bujor thinks, in 2008, when all the parties brace for elections, harassing journalists will grow more frequent. On the other hand, the chairman of the media committee, the Communist MP, Vladimir Dragomir, said there was a law defending the freedom of expression. This law shall not be misunderstood as „the law on offending someone,” he said. At the same sitting, the Liberal-Democrat MP Vlad Filat proposed to invite the Government’s representatives to report on the actions undertaken in the situation when the Russian Federation, breaching the international law principles, was repeatedly opening polling stations in the area on the left bank of the Nistru. Also, it is logical and natural that the Parliament should take attitude as to those violations which thus defy Moldova as a sovereign and independent state, Filat said. Those and other proposals were not back up by the Communist majority faction, which has 55 seats out of 101.