The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe has sent co-rapporteurs Egidijus Vareikis and Maryvonne Blondin to examine the latest political developments in Moldova. The officials will look into the functioning of democratic institutions after the parliamentary elections in February 2019 and into the constitutional and political crisis of June 2019, IPN reports.
The two co-rapporteurs will also survey the latest steps in the fight against corruption, the laws and actions meant to depoliticize the judiciary and other state institutions, as well as the situation of the electoral system, reads a press release of the Moldovan Parliament.
The PACE officials will meet Speaker Zinaida Greceanii, President Igor Dodon and Prime Minister Maia Sandu.
”The agenda also includes meetings with MPs from the justice, appointments and immunities commission, the public finance control commission, the human rights and inter-ethnic relations commission. The co-rapporteurs will meet representatives of all the parliamentary groups and the permanent delegation to PACE”, reads the official release.
The European officials will also visit the National Anticorruption Center, the Constitutional Court, the Central Electoral Commission, the Court of Accounts, the Superior Council of Magistrates, and the Superior Council of Prosecutors.
The schedule also includes meetings with deputy PM Andrei Nastase, deputy PM for reintegration Vasili Sova, Foreign Minister Nicolae Popescu, Justice Minister Olesea Stamate, as well as representatives of the diplomatic community and civil society organizations that work in the justice and anticorruption field.
Egidijus Vareikis is a Lithuanian MP from the European People’s Party, while Maryvonne Blondin is a French MP from the Socialists, Democrats and Greens Group.
