The Parliament’s regulations provide that the parliamentary groups are formed within ten days, noted representatives of the Party of Action and Solidarity (PAS) according to whom the rules weren’t broken when the Parliament constitution sitting was postponed until Thursday. For their part, experts said that even if PAS didn’t commit any deviation from legal viewpoint, from political viewpoint it made a mistake as it created reasons for speculations in the public sphere, IPN reports.
According to PAS MPs, the procedures for electing the Speaker, Deputy Speaker, deputy heads and members of the Standing Bureau and for forming the parliamentary groups were put off until Thursday because additional discussions are needed between the opposition and the government on the issues.
“Under the law, a constitution meeting is convened to establish Parliament. We did so. Before this sitting, we had discussions with representatives of the other parliamentary parties and agreed to hold the festive sitting and on Thursday to meet again to elect the Speaker, Deputy Speaker and members of the Bureau. We agreed that until Thursday the parties will discuss the method in which Parliament will function. We, those from PAS, consider majority means not dictatorship, but democracy,” PAS MP Andrei Spînu stated in the talk show “Expertise Hour” on JurnalTV channel.
The MPs of the former legislature said they do not understand the waste of time as the PAS representatives earlier said they will start work immediately after the elections are validated.
“We expected we will have a Parliament until Friday. It’s clear that the Government will be voted in next week. The hope was the Government will start work as swiftly as possible as this anyway needs several weeks to start its engines. We urgently need an agreement with the IMF and the time should not be wasted,” said former MP Liviu Vovc.
Experts consider the Parliament’s regulations were respected, but the postponement of the sitting gave reasons for the opposition to accuse the government of inconsistency.
“From legal viewpoint, nothing was violated. From political viewpoint yet, there were created reasons for speculations that are not favorable to PAS. The reasonable thing was to elect the Speaker at that sitting. It is yet not easy to establish the Standing Bureau and the permanent commissions and it was sensible for them to take more time,” said the head of the Legal Resource Center Vladislav Gribincea.
“PAS needs time to work out strategies, to review the Parliament’s regulations as the law contains flaws and should be adjusted. It is important that this Thursday’s sitting be fruitful and the whole architecture of Parliament be created. PAS should be generous with the opposition and should offer them several essential commissions so as to show that even if it won the elections, the minority can also have a say,” said political commentator Roman Mihăeș.
The sitting to constitute the newly elected Parliament was attended by 91 of the 101 elected MPs. In the sitting, Constitutional Court president Domnica Manole presented a report on the validation of the snap parliamentary elections, while President Maia Sandu delivered a speech before the MPs. Later, the MPs took a break until July 29.
