The legislative body could not exempt the construction company “Glorinal” from paying the debt of about 25 million lei to the state budget. This company performed restoration works at the Curchi Monastery, but neither the state nor the monastery had money to fully pay for the works. A bill that was to safeguard the interests of both of the sides, put forward by a group of MPs of the parties of the government coalition, wasn’t adopted as it was one vote short, IPN reports.
The Communist and Liberal MPs didn’t support the bill, saying the government either wants to launder money or to collect funds for the election campaign. Lib-Dem Veaceslav Ionita said that “Glorinal” didn’t sue the monastery over the debt as it considered that this is not right and not according to the Christian faith.
Earlier, Parliament tried to exempt this company from paying the debt by an amendment to the budgetary-fiscal law adopted last yearend. But the Liberals challenged this provision to the Constitutional Court for the reason that it hadn’t been approved by the Government. The Court declared it unconstitutional.
