Vice president of the Party “Dignity and Truth Platform” (PPPDA) Igor Munteanu asked the Constitutional Court to interpret the article that regulates the Government’s assumption of responsibility before Parliament and to explain if a Parliament sitting for the assumption of responsibility by the Government can be held if the first sitting failed because of a lack of quorum or if the absence of most of the MPs from the presentation of the assumption of responsibility can be considered refusal for debating the program, IPN reports, quoting a press release of the PPPDA.
“As the Chicu Government voted its own laws (4) by controversial assumption of responsibility, which normally should be adopted by an ordinary procedure, I think this way the Government abused its authority, interfering in what the Constitutional Court called legislative monopoly of Parliament,” stated Igor Munteanu.
According to him, even if the Constitution allows the Government to assume responsibility for particular laws, these should comply with special criteria and should be presented in a special, not ordinary sitting. It is the Parliament’s duty to adopt the budget law and to control its implementation. The Government of the Republic of Moldova somehow defied the existing norm providing that the budget law and the amendments to it are subject to ordinary legislative procedures, profiting from the 51 votes of the PSRM and PDM.
