The draft laws on the powers of the Autonomous Territorial Unit of Gagauzia were sent back to the legislative body as President Igor Dodon refused to promulgate them. The President said that when he examined the bills, he reached the conclusion that these do not match the proposals formulated by the working group of Parliament, the People’s Assembly of Gagauzia and representatives of civil society, IPN reports.
“After the discussion I had with Bashkan Irina Vlah and other representatives of the administration of Gagauzia and based on the conclusions reached after the July 25 extended meeting with representatives of the People’s Assembly of Gagauzia, I decided to return the two bills to Parliament. We must keep peace and unity in our society,” Igor Dodon wrote on a social networking site.
According to the President, the Law on the Special Legal Status of Gagauzia of December 23, 1994 represented a compromise that was needed to exclude the escalation of the conflict that existed at that moment. “We must do our best for the law of 1994 to work fully and all the changes or supplements to be made in the spirit of this law,” he said.
The bills returned to Parliament are: Law No. 186 to amend and supplement the Law on the Territorial-Administrative Organization of the Republic of Moldova and Law No. 187 to amend and supplement a number of legal acts, according to which the communes, villages, towns and municipalities of Moldova are authorities of the first level, the districts and Chisinau and Balti municipalities are authorities of the second level, while ATU Gagauzia is an administration of a special level.
