A number of civil society organizations staged a funeral to bid farewell to a series of laws that weren’t adopted by Parliament despite their insistence. Representatives of the NGOs called on the lawmakers not to take their salaries for the autumn session of Parliament during which they practically didn’t work, IPN reports.
Deputy head of the National NGO Council of Moldova Ghenadie Turcanu said that Parliament didn’t pass the package of laws on tobacco control, ignoring the fact that about 5,600 people die annually in Moldova because of diseases associated with smoking and exposure to cigarette smoke.
Secretary general of the NGO Council Antonita Fonari said the Government intentionally lied to the people, undertaking commitments that it didn’t fulfill. “I thus lost confidence in this government and in this coalition. They had only subjects to lie to us, to employ and enrich their relatives in their agenda. We bid farewell to these documents and to our trust in these persons,” she stated.
Secretary of the Coalition for Free and Fair Elections Nicolae Panfil stated that the first thing he will ask a candidate in this autumn’s elections is where they took money from for financing the election campaign. The legislature didn’t pass the law on election campaign and party funding and the election runners already started to corrupt voters and to use public property for electoral advertising.
Executive director of the Independent Press Association Petru Macovei noted that the non-adoption of the bill on media ownership transparency can lead to brainwashing, when the media outlets will present information in a similar way. Dozens or thousands of microphones will appear in the mass media sector, but they will all obey one owner.
Chairman of the National Participation Council Sergiu Ostaf said that during the next 40 days civil society will provide information about the MPs and ministers, their interests and property so as to show their real face.
The civil sooty representatives called upon the ruling collation to convene a Parliament sitting to adopt the overdue laws and upon the Cabinet to assume political responsibility for these laws, as it did in the case of other laws that were less important for the people.
