Opposition deputies to take their ID cards from CEC

The deputies of those three opposition parties who enter the Parliament after the elections of April 5, will to go to the Central Election Commission (CEC) to take their ID cards. They were not present at the official ceremony of Saturday, April 25, announced by the CEC. They have argued their decision by the fact that they didn’t want to do it next to the Communist deputies and said they would take their parliamentarian cards alone, Info-Prim Neo reports. According to CEC secretary Iurie Ciocan, the PL, PLDM and AMN deputies had the right not to be present at the ceremony and they are entitled to decide if they accept or not the MP mandate. “If someone of them renounces, the CEC will appoint in this office the next person from the list of the respective party.” Ciocan also said that the first sitting in the Parliament, planned for May 5, will take place even in conditions in which the political opposition doesn’t take their mandates up to then. To convene the sitting, a simple majority of deputies is needed, and it is ensured by the Communist Party, which has 60 mandates, Iurie Ciocan specified. The first sitting of the new legislature will be chaired initially by Communist deputy Ivan Calin, who is the oldest of those 101 elected deputies. Further, the deputies will elect the president of the Parliament, by simple majority.