Technical and legal solutions will be identified until March 13 to ensure greater transparency in the sittings of Parliament. The legislature’s Standing Bureau on March 3 decided to delegate a team of MPs led by Liliana Palihovici to have discussions with a group consisting of representatives of media nongovernmental organizations. The decision was taken after representatives of civil society and journalists protested during the Parliament’s sitting, seeking access to the plenary meetings, IPN reports.
Socialist MP Igor Dodon said that when a problem is to be ‘buried’, a commission is set up. He asked that a representative of the mass media should have the right to speak from the Parliament’s rostrum.
Afterward, Liberal MP Mihai Ghimpu proposed allowing the journalists and cameramen to attend the March 3 sitting as an exception. Lib-Dem Chiril Lucinschi said he supports the proposals to allow a member of the press to speak from the rostrum.
The head of the Communist group Inna Supac noted that they should restore the practice used during the Communist government, when the journalists had free access to the assembly hall. The Communists opposed the creation of the working group, insisting that the members of the press should be allowed to attend the sittings.
It was ultimately decided not to allow a representative of the journalists to speak in Parliament, while the protesters chanted “Shame!”
