Marian Lupu: We are witnesses to belligerent tendency

“We are witnesses to a belligerent tendency,” Head of Parliament Marian Lupu, who heads the Democratic Party, said, commenting on the actions of some of his alliance colleagues, related to the last sitting of the legislature. In the program “Moldova live” on the public TV channel, the Speaker said that we are witnessing a political war started by his colleagues from the Liberal Democratic Party, Info-Prim Neo reports. “It is a new stage aimed at creating a state of war in the alliance, initiated by the colleagues from the PLDM, with the support and actions planned in concert with the Communist opposition,” said Marian Lupu. According to him, the Liberal-Democrats have such a behavior because they want early legislative elections as the ordinary elections set to take place at the end of 2014 disadvantage them a lot. The Speaker said that the party he heads remains faithful to the idea that the current ruling alliance must be kept, on condition that its functionality is improved and Moldova’s European integration course is maintained. The January 22 extraordinary sitting of the legislative body, where the dismissal of the Head of Parliament was to be discussed, didn’t take place because the quorum wasn’t present. It was called by Marian Lupu at the request of 34 Communist MPs. The Liberal-Democratic MPs didn’t come to the sitting, arguing it was summoned with deviations from the legislation. The Communist lawmakers left the assembly hall because the discharge of First Deputy Speaker Vlad Plahotniuc wasn’t included in the agenda, as they requested.