Moldova’s President Nicolae Timofti will put forward a bill whereby the parliamentary opposition will have the right to draw up the agenda of a Parliament’s sitting once a month, the President’s spokesman and consultant on public communication Vlad Turcanu said in the public debates “Inefficient political ping-pong with alternation of roles. Culture of the political relations between government and parliamentary opposition” staged by Info-Prim Neo on May 30. “The laws appear as a result of situations when conflicts cannot be settled. A legislative initiative is thus proposed to resolve a dispute and we have levers that can be used to institutionalize the relations between the political groups,” said Vlad Turcanu. According to him, another attempt will be now made to institutionalize this communication by a law on the parliamentary opposition that is being examined by the head of state and will be made public in the near future. “This bill contains a provision that allows the opposition to have the lion’s share in several autonomous public institutions, like the Central Election Commission, the Audit Office and the Broadcasting Coordination Council. It’s not a new form to give the opposition the right to control certain institutions,” said Vlad Turcanu. As to the opposition’s right to compile the agenda, Vlad Turcanu said that such practices had been used in the past, but after 2009 many of the opposition’s proposals are not even discussed. “A solution is for the opposition to draw up a list of bills that should be examined by the MPs,” said the President’s consultant. He specified that the bill that was submitted to the President was drafted by the Party of Socialists of Moldova. The experts attending the debates approved of the Socialists’ intention to find a legal way of promoting this bill through the head of state, from his position of mediator between different political forces. The debates organized by Info-Prim Neo form part of the Development of the Political Culture through Public Debates Project that is supported by the German foundation Hanns Seidel.