PM does not know cases when ministers are late for parliamentary sittings

The ministers-MPs will take a decision as regards the quitting of the seat of MP, Premier Vlad Filat said, when asked to comment on the Democratic leader Marian Lupu's assertion that the posts of minister and MP should be delimited. “I and my colleagues from the Government will make a relevant decision even if the period during which a person can hold the two posts simultaneously expires and such a decision is not so important,” the Prime Minister said. “It is their decision (of the Democratic Party – e.n.) as they probably have certain arguments for it.” In this connection, Filat said the decision to hold temporarily the posts of minister and MP simultaneously was taken in order to ensure the quality of the legislative process, on which the implementation of internal economic and democratic reforms depends to a great extent. “We will make a decision, but I do not know cases when the ministers are late or absent from the parliamentary sittings,” he said. The president of the Democratic Party Marian Lupu called on the leaders of the Alliance for European Integration to take steps so that all the ministers who are simultaneously members of Parliament renounce the seat of MP. In a news conference on February 10, Lupu said such a move is needed in order to make the work of the government and the legislative body more efficient.