The legislative body has plans to create a cable TV channel that would broadcast live the sittings of Parliament and the meetings of the Standing Bureau, the permanent commissions, the working groups and the commissions of inquiry as well as MPs’ press statements. The subject was discussed in a meeting of Speaker Andrian Candu with representatives of the NGO Council, IPN reports, quoting the legislature’s press service.

The Head of Parliament said that a series of proposals aimed at increasing transparency in the legislative body’s work and at making it more open to the people are now being discussed. They refer to the implementation of an intranet network of Parliament and the use of e-government services.

According to Andrian Candu, Moldova’s Parliament and civil society will join efforts in a move to exercise parliamentary control over the implementation of Moldova’s Association Agenda. The Speaker said he asked MP Marcel Raducan, who heads the commission of inquiry into the situation on the financial market of Moldova to include members of civil society in the commission as observers. He called on civil society to take part in the designation of the new conception of the legislature’s website and to appraise the new Regulations of Parliament, when they are drafted.

The participants in the meeting also discussed the implementation of the Civil Society Development Strategy for 2012-2015 and the agenda of the annual conference centering on the conception of cooperation between Parliament and civil society that is traditionally held at the beginning of each year.