Solemn Parliament sitting to be preceded by photo exhibition and documentary presentation

The solemn sitting of Parliament, where Moldova’s Declaration of Independence will be restored, will start at 10:00 on Monday, April 26, and will be preceded by a photo exhibition themed “Parliament ’90” and the projection of a documentary film about the activity of the first parliament, Info-Prim Neo reports. After the official start of the solemn sitting the law-makers will keep a moment of silence in memory of the deputies who died after 1990, it was said in a parliamentary press release. Speeches will be delivered by Mihai Ghimpu, Speaker of Parliament and concurrently acting President of Moldova; Prime Minister Vlad Filat; the leaders of the parliamentary factions; Moldova’s first President Mircea Snegur; and Alexandru Mosanu and Petru Lucinschi, speakers of the first parliament. Next, Parliament will start the procedure to restore the Declaration of Independence, which was adopted on 27 August 1991 and later lost in the 2009 April events. The signatures of 48 deceased lawmakers of the total 278 deputies who voted 19 years ago for the Declaration will be affixed after scanning. The leaders of the ruling Alliance for European Integration announced they would participate in the solemn sitting and would vote for the Declaration, while the leader of the opposition Party of Communists, Vladimir Voronin, said the restoration of the document would be “a stupid thing to do”.