Update /12:34pm/ After the break, the central rostrum was again blocked. Deputy Speaker Vlad Batrîncea invited Deputy Prime Minister Sergey Pușcuța, Minister of Finance, to present the draft budgetary-fiscal policy from the governmental stand, but was booed by the opposition MPs who chanted “Shame!”. Vlad Batrîncea announced a new break, of 60 minutes. The leaders of the parliamentary groups were convened for the meeting of the Standing Bureau.
The MPs of the Party “Dignity and Truth Platform” and of the Party of Action and Solidarity blocked the Parliament’s rostrum during the December 3 sitting. Supported by the MPs of the Democratic Party and the Pro Moldova group, they demanded to exclude a number of bills introduced by the Socialists MPs from the agenda, but all in vain, IPN reports.
The MPs invoked the absence of the necessary appraisals and the fact that broad public consultations on the bills haven’t been held. They referred to the bill to transfer the Security and Intelligence Service from the President’s subordination under the Parliament’s management, the bill on the functioning of languages and the bill to amend the Code of Audiovisual Media Services.
They also asked to remove the 2021 draft budgetary-fiscal policy and state budget law, draft social insurance budget law and draft mandatory health insure funds law from the agenda.
“Given the serious violations of the legislation and of the Parliament’s Regulations and the ignoring of citizens’ interests, we have to resort to other methods so as to stop this disorder,” Alexandrul Slusari said after the demand to exclude the bills wasn’t satisfied.
After the Parliament’s rostrum was blocked, Speaker Zinaida Grechanyi announced a 30-minute break.
