Liberals won't participate in Parliament meeting called by Communists
The Communist Party's initiative to call an urgent meeting of Parliament is the “latest folly that came to their mind”, and the Liberal Party will not participate in such a meeting, stated Liberal MP Valeriu Munteanu.
“We are moving towards our objective, European integration, and the Communists see that we've got closer to this objective than they ever got in years of feigning this aspiration, and this prompts them to invent new ideas. Our parliamentary group will certainly not appear in Parliament for this ridiculous idea of the Communists. They will perhaps succeed in assembling such a meeting, but the Liberals are not willing to take part in absurdities”, Valeriu Munteanu told a show on Publika TV.
Liberal-Democrat MP Iurie Tap thinks that the request to hold an urgent Parliament meeting is “ridiculous”. “This issue is not an urgency. The Communists are just trying to catch the wave and they should admit it”.
Victor Gurau, a Communist councilor, criticized the Alliance MPs for being “guided by the bridle” and not seeing alternative economic advantages. “Statistics show that much more Moldovans send money from the area covered by the Russia-Belarus-Kazakhstan Customs Union than from the EU”.
Politic analyst Anatol Taranu said that it is highly unlikely for the Communists to succeed in holding a referendum on accession to the Customs Union, for the simple reason that two representatives of parliamentary parties have already announced their opposition to a Parliament meeting that would decide on such a referendum.
Earlier the Communist Party announced that it was initiating a procedure to summon Parliament for an urgent meeting on September 13 with a view to organizing a referendum on Moldova's accession to the Customs Union.