Parliament to decide if United Moldova Party will have a faction on Apr. 30

After a group of unaffiliated MPs representing the United Moldova Party insistently asked that the Parliament's regulations be modified so that they allow creating new factions, the members of the Alliance for European Integration on April 23 decided to include this issue in the agenda of the April 30 sitting, Info-Prim Neo reports. The group of MPs of the United Moldova Party includes the five lawmakers who left the parliamentary group of the Communists Party last yearend. They want to create their own faction. The group's leader Vladimir Turcan said the unaffiliated MPs feel discriminated because they do not have the right to field candidates for the parliamentary delegations that go abroad, to ask for the agenda to be modified and to form part of the Standing Bureau. After the Liberal-Democratic coalition rejected the proposal to include the modification of the Parliament's regulations in the agenda of the previous sittings, Vladimir Turcan said his group would boycott the meetings. The regulations say that the parliamentary groups are created during the first ten days of the constitution of the legislative body. The group consists of Vladimir Turcan, Victor Stepaniuc, Valentin Guznac, Ludmila Belcehnkova and Svetlana Rusu.