AEI will have a charter
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In a week or two at the most, the Alliance for European Integration (AEI) will adopt a functioning statute, which will formally incorporate it as the ruling coalition. The announcement was made for Info-Prim Neo by representatives of the four parties forming the AEI.
A draft charter for AEI, which outlines the internal rules of the coalition, was proposed several months ago by an outsider. It is now being examined by a coordination group consisting of representatives from the Liberal Democratic Party (PLDM), the Liberal Party (PL), the Democratic Party (PDM) and the Moldova Noastra Alliance (AMN).
The four parties explained the delay in adopting a bylaw for the AIE by arguing that thorough consideration was needed in order to avoid any ambiguity.
“It's not easy, because there are four parties and each comes up with its own ideas. It's important to have such a document, which will mediate possible disputes within the AEI”, says Iurie Colesnic, vice president of AMN. Colesnic added that no misunderstandings have existed so far within the AEI, but being an “electoral alliance”, it needs certain rules to play by.
“It won't be a bulky document, because we don't intend to make documents that would be greater in size than the bylaws of each separate party. This will be a document that will be easy to use in difficult moments”, added Colesnic.
“I hope the statute will be adopted in a week's term, two at the most. If not at the upcoming meeting of the Alliance, then certainly at the following”, said Mihai Godea, a vice president of the PLDM. The statement was confirmed by PL member Boris Vieru.
At the same time, Dumitru Diacov, honorary president of PDM, says he hasn't seen anything on paper yet: “There isn't any document. There is an understanding, which is disrespected from time to time, and now we have agreed that we need certain rules (…) so that conflicts wouldn't appear out of nothing”.
Earlier Diacov told reporters that “not the PDM will be responsible for AEI's collapse”, suggesting other components could threaten the integrity of the alliance.
Key members of the Communists Party have repeatedly stated that they don't recognize the AEI because it lacks a formal statute.
The AEI formed in the wake of the snap parliamentary elections on 29 July 2009. The Alliance, consisting of four parties, holds 53 votes in the 101-seat Parliament. The Communists hold the remaining 48 seats.
