First session of new Parliament showed Communists were incapable of dialogue with opposition: PLDM

The Liberal Democratic Party (PLDM) says the way in which the first sitting of the newly elected parliament was held speaks about “the cynical and duplicitous character of the Communists and their inability to dialog with the political opponents in the name of the so-called stability they promote,” Info-Prim Neo reports. “The Communists have shown now they do not know and do not want to participate in a civilized duologue, in regular parliamentary work, based on morale and national interest,” said PLDM president Vlad Filat, on Tuesday at a news conference. He has criticized that the Communists' oldest parliamentarian chairing the session, Ivan Calin, brought severe charges against the opposition in the plenary sitting, without offering the right to replies. “The speech of the session chairman abounded in the Stalinist terminology about internal and external enemies of the statehood. The direct attacks on the opposition exactly show how the Communists are going to work int hew new parliament,” Filat said. He called it “regrettable” that the chairman of the Constitutional Court, Dumitru Pulbere, made political commentaries in his speech, thus going beyond his powers. PLDM is also worried by “the duplicitous policy” of the ruling party. According to Filat, the Communist government more and more often coordinates its actions domestically and abroad with Kremlin officials: before meeting the high commissioner of the EU, Javier Solana, outgoing president Vladimir Voronin had met with Russian ambassador Valery Kuzmin, and before launching the Eastern Partnership in Prague, foreign minister Andrei Stratan has consultations in Moscow with his Russian counterpart, Sergey Lavrov. The PLDM was to forward a series of claims to the PCRM in the first sitting. Among those: the unconditional liberation of the people apprehended after the April 7 protests; publicly withdrawing the accusations about the alleged coup d'etat, attaching Moldova to another state and vandalizing the quarters of the Parliament and Presidency; insuring the opposition's access to the public radio and television. The PLDM also asks for the dismissal of the administration of the public broadcaster Teleradio-Moldova and of the Broadcasting Coordinating Council; setting up a commission of the parliament to investigate the April 7 events, comprising members of the opposition, free media, the civil society, representatives of the EU and of the Council of Europe, punishing the ones having ordered to torture citizens. At the same news conference, the PLDM introduced its faction formed of 15 MPs. The chairman is Vlad Filat, deputy chairmen are Alexandru Tanase and Mihai Godea, and Angel Agache is the secretary.