Parliament convenes in a plenary sitting on Tuesday, November 12, starting at 10.00, to examine the motion of censure submitted by the PSRM. The decision was taken today at the Standing Bureau meeting, IPN reports.
On November 8, the Socialist Party submitted a censure motion as a result of the Government's assuming responsibility to amend the Law on the Prosecutor's Office. Presenting the motion, the Socialist MP Vasile Bolea has mentioned that the Government's assumption of responsibility endangers the independence of the prosecutor's office and the independence of justice.
During the presentation of the bill for which the Government assumed its responsibility, Maia Sandu has mentioned that the prime minister will pre-select at least two candidates for the position of Prosecutor General and will send the list of the pre-selected candidates and their files to the Superior Council of Prosecutors. Subsequently, the Superior Council of Prosecutors may elect one of the proposed candidates and submit it to the country's president.
Today, November 11, Maia Sandu put forward a proposal for the withdrawal of the motion. The prime minister has pledged that, once it enters into force, she will submit the law to the Venice Commission's expertise and will not send the short list of candidates to the Superior Council of Prosecutors before receiving the Venice Commission's opinion on the law, while Vasile Bolea, a member of the Socialist Party, has said at a press briefing that the only way out of the "political crisis", created after the Government led by Maia Sandu assumed its responsibility for amending the Law on the prosecutor's office, is the withdrawal of the bill.
