Eleven Moldovan lawmakers could be penalized by the EU at the request of Deputy Head of Parliament Andrian Candu, Communist MP Artur Reshetnikov announced Thursday. Asked by the reporters to comment on these statements, Speaker Igor Corman said Artur Reshetnikov remembered last year’s snow. He stated that Andrian Candu is an MP and, as all the MPs, has the right to his own opinion, this not being a Parliament decision.
“It was Andrian Candu’s view. It didn’t represent Parliament’s position. It was his own position,” said Igor Corman.
The leader of the Liberal-Democratic parliamentary group Valeriu Strelet said he knew nothing about this request and the issue wasn’t discussed within the coalition.
Deputy Speaker Andrian Candu is abroad as part of a delegation and is unavailable for comment.
According to the news portal Realitatea.md, the list includes the Communist lawmakers Vladimir Voronin, Iurie Muntean, Maria Postoiko, Mark Tkachuk (who vacated his seat of MP earlier this month, e.n.), Grigore Petrenko, Eduard Musuc, Alexandr Petkov, Artur Reshetnikov, Constantin Starysh, and Socialist MPs Igor Dodon and Ion Ceban. In a letter to the President of the European Commission Jose Manuel Barroso, the lawmakers are accused of undermining the democratic principles and the rule of law and of threatening the sovereignty, territorial integrity and constitutional order in Moldova.
The letter also says that the 11 Moldovan MPs go to the EU for own purposes, while their relatives study or vacation in the EU.
