The parliamentary group of the Party of Socialists demands convening an extraordinary sitting of Moldova’s Parliament where the legislative body would dissolve itself and would announce early legislative elections, IPN reports.

The Socialists said that under the law, the procedures that lead to early parliamentary elections can be initiated half a year before the expiration of the President’s term in office, which is September 22.

According to the Socialists, in the extraordinary sitting the MPs should amend the Constitution’s article concerning the method of electing the head of state so as to allow for the direct election of the head of state. They should also dismiss, in turn or all together, the National Bank governor, the prosecutor general, the director of the National Anticorruption Center, the Central Election Commission’s chairman and the director of the National Agency for Energy Regulation, who were named to posts based on political criteria, as the Socialists say. The parliamentary immunity should be removed so that everyone is equal before the law.

If these things do not happen, the Socialists reserve the right to protest and to picket the governmental institutions so as to obtain the resignation of the senior administration and the calling of early elections. The Party of Socialists will launch the initiative to collect signatures so as to hold a referendum where to vote for the election of the President by the people.

The leader of the Political Party “Our Party” Renato Usatyi earlier today announced that they will also mount protests near the Government Building to demand early elections.