Speaker of Parliament Andrian Candu said the final vote on the modification of the electoral system will be held only after the Venice Commission provides its assessment. After the May 5 sitting of Parliament, Candu said a lot of pressure was exerted and the Democratic Party showed flexibility and accepted a compromise bill, IPN reports.
“In the short term, we accepted the compromise, even if we consider that the uninominal voting system was more appropriate. The new bill will be submitted to the Venice Commission. The two bills were merged by the votes of 74 MPs, which is a broad consensus. The new bill is based on the mixed-member electoral system. The dismissal of MPs remains in our agenda and we will initiate the modification of the Constitution in this regard,” stated Andrian Candu.
The Speaker noted that the decision to merge the Democrats’ bill with the Socialists’ bill is a first victory. According to him, the debates held within the sitting represented a confrontation between the power and the opposition and the taken decision was a compromise achieved for the benefit of society.
A bill to introduce the mixed-member electoral system was already passed in Parliament in April 2013, on the initiative of Democrat Vlad Plahotniuc. At the beginning of May the same year, the MPs abrogated the law after the Liberal-Democratic MPs insisted on the constitution of a commission that would examine the impact of the mixed-member electoral system, invoking that the bill was adopted in a hurry and a number of mistakes were made. This April, after President Igor Dodon proposed an initiative to introduce the mixed-member electoral system, the Democratic Party has issued a press release, saying what the Socialists do now is a political trick and an attempt to hinder the introduction of the uninominal voting system and to divert the society’s attention to something else so as to cause confusion.
