Even if Moldova’s legislation envisions a number of instruments and forms of parliamentary control, Parliament, its working bodies and the MPs do not fully use these constitutional tools to exercise authentic parliamentary control. At the same time, the lack of a legal framework for the punishment of decision-makers that provide the MPs and commissions of inquiry with inaccurate or incomplete information leads to the impossibility of appropriately fulfilling one’s duties, says a report on the exercise of the parliamentary control in 2018 that was presented by “Promo-LEX” Association.
According to report author Adrian Fetescu, the implementation of the recommendations formulated as a result of public hearings cannot be followed by Parliament and the parliamentary commissions owing to the absence of a framework for regulating the monitoring mechanism. The questions and inquiries of MPs as instruments of parliamentary control are often inefficient given that the answers of those involved are incomplete, evasive, formal and are often sent with delay.
The report says the legal provisions concerning the obligation of some of the public authorities to present reports to Parliament are incomplete and some of the stations are not even described. Also, the information about parliamentary control placed on the Parliament’s official website is incomplete or there is even no such information.
In the same event, there was presented a report on the filling or vacating of public posts in 2018. Expert Mariana Kalughin said the legal provisions do not cover all the situations and these are insufficiently clear and applicable. Some of the problems noted in the previous reports were overcome by legislative amendments. There were set up contest commissions or the relevant duties were delegated to existing entities, but these worked inefficiently or incompletely. The principles of legality, independence, integrity and transparency are guaranteed in a limited way.
