Communists MPs oppose to creating special commission which would examine abuses committed by law enforcement bodies

Communist MPs rejected, on Thursday, October 26, a draft decision providing the creation of a special commission which would examine cases of abuse committed by law enforcement bodies, on the basis of citizens’ grievances. The draft was proposed by the MP, Dumitru Braghiş, who justified its necessity by the increasing amount of alarming information about flagrant violations of human rights by the law enforcement structures of the R. of Moldova. Such cases have been brought to discussion by media as well as by some politicians and opinion-leaders. Authors proposed the Parliament to launch, via mass-media, an appeal to all the citizens of the republic, encouraging them to address grievances and information concerning the violations of the constitutional rights and liberties of the citizens to the respective Commission. Braghis also specified that there are lots of cases when grievances sent to the Parliament or other state bodies are being examined by the same law enforcement structures the abuses of which make the subject of these grievances. As a consequence, the population loses its trust in the state structures, including the Parliament, its supreme legislative body. “Situations described by the media, cases lost in the European Court of Human Rights, numerous complaints of the citizens addressed to the MPs, hundreds of cases which take place in each raion and even locality, where representatives of the law enforcement bodies directly scorn the citizens, all these put together proves that it is not an issue of particular cases but a whole system that continuously tends to expand” declared the MP. Several MPs, representing the opposition supported the initiative bringing new examples of illegal actions of law-enforcement structures, emphasizing the necessity of founding such a commission. However, communist MPs did not support the bill. Iuri Stoicov declared that the General Prosecution office already works in this respect and that there’s no need of forming this commission. At the same time, the Standing Committee of Legal Issues, Appointments and Immunities proposed to reject the draft, considering it “irrational” because it “conducts to the doubling of the work of standing committees or the concurrence between their competences”. By the vote of the communist MPs, the draft has been rejected.