The petition of the Resistance Movement ACUM signed by over 50,000 Moldovan citizens, by which the European Union and its member states are requested to help investigate the US$ 1 billion theft committed in the banking system, was presented in Strasbourg by the PAS and PPPDA leaders Maia Sandu and Andrei Năstase.
In a discussion with MEP Petras Auštrevičius, Maia Sandu said four years have passed since the theft, but the Moldovan authorities recovered no money of the stolen funds and penalized none of those involved in the banking fraud. The citizens seek support from the European institutions to investigation aspects of the fraud.
By suggesting designing a Code of Conduct for the electoral period, the Democratic Party (PDM) wants to show to the whole society and political players that it wants to set down, from the start, particular rules of the game, the party’s spokesman Vitalie Gamurari in the talk show “Fabrika” on Publika TV channel.
The IPN Experts noted it’s a pity that the current innovators of the PDM didn’t invite the representatives of the other 12 parties that, alongside the PDM, signed the Code of Conduct on January 23, 2009 to the December 11 program. It would be interesting to know how their attitudes to this document changed. This would have been also important for the participants in the program, Democratic MP Corneliu Mihalache, who said the idea of working out a Code of Conduct is a noble intention of the party. He would have learned that 12 more parties had such a noble intention ten years ago.
Finally, he would have found out that the Code of Conduct was introduced by Law No. 176-XVI on July 22 , 2005, when the 101 MPs lived the story of the Declaration on the political partnership for achieving the European integration objectives.
However, the recent initiative of the PDM does not lack innovatory potential. For example, the PDM could reformulate its own initiative into the Code of Conduct for the period between elections and write there, for example, what the parties should not do between elections and in the election campaign. Such a document would be necessary indeed and this should ban the parties from:
- concentrating the media outlets in the hands of leaders for propaganda, especially on TV channels that retransmit channels from countries involved in the hybrid war;
- giving the voters “baskets with food products” as a present for forming conditioned reflexes in them;
- hiding the activity behind charitable foundations and social stores; bringing artists from countries involved in the hybrid war to sing for voters as if for free, etc.
Representatives of the “People’s Will” Party consider the parliamentary elections of February 24, 2019 will be rigged and there are a number of preconditions in this regard, mainly the docile behavior of the police force, law enforcement agencies, prosecution service, courts of law and the Central Election Commission, which should actually ensure the legality of the electoral process. The party calls on the political entities, nongovernmental organizations and the media to constitute an anti-electoral fraud alliance, forming thus a common Front that would monitor and would ensure the observance of the Constitution and the electoral legislation.
Other nongovernmental organizations and civic activists call on political parties to respect and apply the gender representation quota of minimum 40% when nominating candidates for the parliamentary elections of February 24, 2019, both in the national constituency and in single-member constituencies.
In a news conference at IPN, signatories of the call reminded that in 2016, by the votes of 86 MPs, the political class undertook to respect the principle of gender equality on the decision-making process by adopting the minimum gender representation quota of 40%.
The members of the current Parliament will come together for the last siting of the autumn-winter session on December 14. “We will later return, at the beginning of next February, for the spring session, especially if there are emergencies. Given that the election campaign will be in full swing then, we will try not to come together during the election campaign so as not to use Parliament as a platform for debates and political struggles,” stated the Speaker.
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