The lawmakers begin work within the legislature’s standing commissions. On September 4, meetings will be held by the commission on public administration and regional development and the commission on foreign policy and European integration.
Referring to the new priorities of the parliamentary session, the leader of the Liberal-Democratic faction Valeriu Strelet told IPN that the Lib-Dems will focus on a number of actions aimed at improving the Parliament’s work. There will be discussed the new Parliament’s regulations and the MPs’ Code of Ethics and Conduct. Among the priorities is the approval of the budgetary-fiscal policy for 2014 and of the state budget, the social insurance budget and the health insurance budget.
The head of the Liberal reformers’ group Ion Hadarca said that the joint meeting of the Government and Parliament that will take place next week will decide the priorities of the autumn-winter session. Among the priorities is the adoption of bills concerning the European integration course, including the visa liberalization conditions and the regime of stay for foreigners, and amendments to the Criminal Code, the Code of Administrative Offenses and other documents.
Liberal MP Valeriu Munteanu said the Liberal lawmakers will make public their priorities in a news conference that will be given before the start of the plenary sittings.
Communist lawmaker Artur Reshetnikov stated for IPN that the early elections remain a priority for the Communist Party. “Poverty struck not only the ordinary people, but also the minds of those who rule in Moldova. Our goal is to rid the country of an anti-popular government. We will make everything possible to free Moldova from this liberal scourge,” he said.
The date of the first sitting of the autumn-winter session will be set by the Parliament’s Standing Bureau on September 4.
