The parliamentary group of the Party of Socialists decided to leave the assembly hall of Parliament after a number of initiatives to dismiss state functionaries, proposed by them, weren’t included in the agenda. Socialist MP Vlad Batrancea told the journalists that the Socialists will return to the draft decision on the dismissal of Speaker Andrian Candu because this imposes his own agenda on Parliament, IPN reports.

Vlad Batrancea stated that Moldova is a captured state and this is most clearly and powerfully felt in Parliament. “When bills that promote Moldova’s and people’s interests are submitted, this Parliament becomes nonfunctional. We came today to promote the same agenda and to demand that the corrupt functionaries should be dismissed. We will not stop at political revenge taken on the PLDM. The Socialists want the prosecutor general, the heads of the National Anticorruption Center, the Central Election Commission, the broadcasting regulator and of other institutions that didn’t cope with the situation to be dismissed. We left this alliance in the hall so that they further deal with their evil interests, the interests of groups and so-called political parties,” he said.

The lawmaker added that in a parliamentary republic, the MPs have the right to dismiss the whole Central Election Commission because its members were named by Parliament. The MPs can also initiate the procedure for firing the director of the National Anticorruption Center because this was appointed by the legislative body. The same refers to the prosecutor general.

Socialists’ initiatives concerning the dismissal of a number of state functionaries weren’t include in the agenda of the November 5 sitting of Parliament because they were short of votes or didn’t meet the legal norms.