During the first six months of 2016, the working group of the Parliament with the People’s Assembly of Gagauzia made effort to ensure a continuous dialogue between the two legislative bodies. In a summing up meeting on June 28, the group’s co-chairwoman, MP Elena Bacalu said there were adopted 21 decisions that were transmitted to the authorities as recommendations for identifying the necessary solutions, IPN reports.
The decisions refer to the use of international loans and the Road Fund in relation to the Autonomous Territorial Unit of Gagauzia, distribution of the resources of the National Ecological Fund during the next five years, creation of a Regional Development Agency in Gagauzia and working out of the plan of action for improving the socioeconomic situation in the region in 2016-2019. At the request of the working group, by five places for candidates for the posts of judge and prosecutor from Gagauzia will be provided at the National Institute of Justice this year, on condition that they work in the region after they graduate. Also, functionaries of the secretariat of the People’s Assembly from this year will be involved in internships at the Parliament’s secretariat.
With the support of the mediation partners from Crises Management International, the MPs of the group paid working visits to three autonomous regions of the EU – South Tyrol (Italy), Wales (UK) and the Aland Islands (Finland) – to familiarize themselves with methods of tackling and solving problems that appear in the relations between autonomous regions and the central authorities.
In the meeting, the working group presented a series of proposals for amending and supplementing the legislation so as to delimit the powers of the central authorities and of the region’s authorities. These refer to the Law on the Special Legal Status of Gagauzia, the territorial-administrative organization of Moldova, administrative decentralization and approval of the Common Catalogue of Public Posts.
“The proposals will be presented to the Government and represent an effort made to improve the cooperation between the authorities of Chisinau and of Comrat. The non-recognition of information was the biggest problem that existed and suspicions between the sides appeared owing to lack of communication,” said Speaker Andrian Candu.
The working group’s report will be published on the websites of Moldova’s Parliament and the People’s Assembly of Gagauzia and will be transmitted to the MPs for examination.
