PCRM could vote for Lupu as president if AEI supports Ghimpu's dismissal, Maria Postoiko

The leader of the parliamentary group of the Communists Party (PCRM) Maria Postoiko told a news conference on Friday that the initiative to set up a special commission that would investigate the April events belongs to the PCRM, Info-Prim Neo reports. Postoiko said that the Communist MPs put forward this initiative at the meeting of the Parliament's Standing Bureau on October 1. The proposal was rejected by the other MPs, but the second day they presented it in the Parliament as theirs. “We proposed that this commission should include European experts and representatives of the civil society so as to find our what really happened on April 6-8,” Postoiko said. According to her, the PCRM's group in the Parliament is marginalized. The microphone is closed when the Communist MPs want to speak. Their applications for delivering speeches and their proposals concerning the agenda are not accepted. Speaker Mihai Ghimpu comments on their speeches and proposals. Asked how she can explain Ghimpu's behavior, Postoiko said that on the one hand it is a matter of education, while on the other hand Ghimpu forgot where he is and does not realize that he is the head of Parliament not the boss of all the MPs, who have the right to express their opinions and submit proposals. In this connection, 35 Communist MPs formulated a legislative initiative on Ghimpu's dismissal. Asked why only 35 of the 48 members of the parliamentary group of the PCRM signed the initiative, Postoiko said that it was backed by all the members, but to be accepted the initiative can be signed by only one-third of the MPs. Postoiko said that some of the members of the Alliance for European Integration could support the Communists' initiative as Ghimpu treats rudely many of them, rejecting their proposals at the meetings of the Standing Bureau. In another development, Postoiko said that it is not excluded that the Communists could vote in favor of the Alliance's candidate for President of Moldova – the former Communist MP Marian Lupu – if the members of the Alliance vote for Ghimpu's dismissal. For his part, the Communist MP Grigore Petrenco stressed that this initiative has nothing to do with the procedure for electing the head of state.