The censure motion examined today in Parliament will have the fate of the previous motions, which were rejected. However, this may be not the last motion this year, considers vice director of the Institute of Legal and Political Researches of the Academy of Sciences of Moldova Victor Juc. The politologist stated for IPN that the government should amend the Parliament’s Regulations so as to bar the submission of censure motions so often.
The Communist faction put forward a new censure motion against the Leanca Government, arguing that the Association Agreement with the EU, initialed at the Vilnisu EaP Summit on November 29, was negotiated in secret. Victor Juc considers that the negotiations weren’t held in secret as the information about the negotiations was known. As to the initialed agreement, the rules provide that the text cannot be negotiated with the entire people.
“The parties of the government coalition now have a majority, maybe not a comfortable one, but they can make amendments to the Parliament’s Regulations so as to allow a faction to submit a censure motion against the Government once in six months or in certain conditions. I expect that this will not be the last motion this year,” stated Victor Juc.
He does not yet believe that the image of the Leanca Government was affected by the censure motions put forward by the opposition. “The people realize that the Government is simply harassed by the opposition,” said Victor Juc.
The censure motion will be examined in the December 11 sitting of Parliament, starting at 15.00. Speaker Igor Corman anticipated that the motion will not be passed, while the leader of the Socialists Igor Dodon said that he and his colleagues will vote in favor of giving a vote of no confidence to the Government.
Until now, the Communist parliamentary group submitted two motions against the Government, both in October. In the first case, the Communist MPs accused the executive of trying to dispossess the state of Banca de Economii and the Chisinau International Airport. The second motion concerned the Transnistrian conflict and the setting up of migration points between the two banks of the Nistru. Both of the motions didn’t garner the necessary number of votes.
The censure motion is adopted by a majority of votes of the attending MPs.
