President Maia Sandu’s decision to ask the Constitutional Court to ascertain the circumstances for dissolving Parliament divided the MPs into camps. Only the representatives of the PAS expressed their satisfaction with the President’s decision, saying the eventual snap parliamentary elections would help clean the political class in the Republic of Moldova. At the same time, the MPs of the PPPDA, the PDM and Pro Moldova said the President’s decision implies the keeping of a Government without plenipotentiary powers for another half a year, IPN reports.
The PPPDA MPs said the triggering of snap elections would mean another half a year of political instability. In the period, the pandemic crisis would expand as the interim Government cannot unlock the foreign assistance.
“If the High Court confirms the circumstances for dissolving Parliament, during another five-six months we will not have a Government and this Ping-Pong between Dodon and Sandu over the Ciocoi Government will continue. The country will be managed by this incompetent Government. Throughout this period, we will not unlock the foreign assistance and 2021 will be a lost year from socioeconomic viewpoint,” Parliament Deputy Speaker Alexandru Slusari, PPPDA MP, stated in the talk show “Block Box” on TV8 channel.
The MPs of Pro Moldova accuse Maia Sandu of aiming to increase the PAS’s rating on account of the pandemic crisis and of mimicking the consultations with the parliamentary groups.
“The poll published by IMAS clearly shows that 71% of the population believes things follow an incorrect direction, while 58% said they are not at all satisfied with the President’s activity. Those discussions at the Presidential Palace weren’t consultations or a participatory process in accordance with the constitutional norm. In this period, we were witness to a cheap show,” said Pro Moldova MP Vlad Cebotari.
On the other hand, the PAS MPs insist on holding snap elections and assure that immediately after the elections, a pro-European Government that could restore the relations with the foreign development partners would be invested.
“The snap elections are needed not by a party or by the President. They are needed by society. This Parliament already showed what it can do. There are many MPs who are afraid of losing their seats and now cynically speculate on this scourge, the pandemic. The installing of a transitional Government annuls the possibility of snap elections,” said PAS MP Sergiu Litvinenco.
The Democrats noted that during the consultations with the President they proposed, as an alternative, investing an anti-crisis Government and of later dissolving Parliament by consensus between all the political parties. This proposal was rejected by President Sandu.
“We all agreed to come with a public statement by which to announce the investing of a Government for a limited period of time so as to later induce snap elections and not to trouble the people and the Constitutional Court. This happens in the conditions in which all the parties say the containing of the pandemic is the top priority. Maia Sandu sets a very dangerous precedent. If she wants, she dissolves Parliament. If she does not want, she does not dissolve it,” said Democratic MP Alexandru Jizdan.
Yesterday, President Maia Sandu filed an application to the Constitutional Court, asking this to ascertain the circumstances for dissolving Parliament following two failed attempts to invest a Government. The first candidate nominated for premiership Natalia Gavrilița didn’t garner any vote in Parliament, while the attempt to invest the Government led by Igor Grosu failed due to the lack of a quorum at the Parliament sitting.
