The first plenary sitting of the spring-summer session of Parliament will start with over 60 bills that were to be adopted during the previous session, considers Liberal MP Lilian Carp. In the public debate “Conditions and specific features of Parliament’s spring-summer session” that was staged by IPN News Agency and Radio Moldova, this said that the setting of the first plenary sitting is conditioned by the central public administration reform.
The Liberal MP noted that the ruling alliance discusses the central public administration reform and the Liberals suggest that this should be done simultaneously with the local public administration reform so as to ensure services closer to the people. The laws that are to be amended depend on the way in which the Government works.
As to the closing of schools and optimization of mayor’s offices invoked by Socialist MP Vlad Batrancea, Lilian Carp said the closing of schools was planned while the current President Igor Dodon was minister of economy, while the local public administration reform done by Vladimir Voronin was implemented for the sake of statistics.
The Liberal MP said there are mayor’s offices where over 80-90% of the funds represent subsidies from the central budget and these cannot pay the employees with own incomes. The structure of mayor’s offices from the Soviet period should have been kept and no new offices that consume public money should have been created. “Mayor’s offices that consume 1.5 million lei, but collect taxes of 200,000 lei should not exist,” he stated.
As to the parliamentary control, Lilian Carp said this is ensued by interpellations, while the parliamentary commissions can invite representatives of the Government to render reports. The special commissions can perform parliamentary control, but these are created only after the problem appears in society.
The public debate “Conditions and specific features of Parliament’s spring-summer session” is the 70th installment of the series of debates “Developing political culture by public debates” that are staged with support from the Hanns Seidel Foundation of Germany.
