The Party of Action and Solidary (PAS) will vote amendments to the budget in Parliament, in a normal regime, not by assumption of responsibility by the Government, on condition that assistance for the hospitality industry, for compensating the losses in agriculture and money for performing 5,000 tests for COVID-19 are a day are added to those bills, IPN reports.
The PAS MPs asked the Government to withdraw the bills for which it assumed responsibility and to register them so that they are examined by Parliament. They reiterated their readiness to vote amendments to the budget, if these are supplemented with their proposals.
“After two failed attempts that are shameful for the Party of Socialists and its Government, we clearly explained that it is not right for Dodon and his Government to insist on disconnecting Parliament from the amendment of the state budget law. We tell Mister Chicu and Mister Dodon that they have a task that can last for 30 minutes – to annul the assumption of responsibility so that the laws are debated according to the ordinary procedure in Parliament. The PAS group will vote all the initiatives that are for the people’s benefit,” said the head of the PAS parliamentary group Igor Grosu.
PAS vice president, MP Radu Marian spoke about the economic crisis experienced by hundreds of enterprises. “For almost four months, the restaurants, tourist pensions, hotels and wedding halls haven’t worked. The Government banned them from reopening and sales decreased seven, eight or even ten times or the invested tens of millions of lei that was borrowed was lost and cannot be repaid now. The hospitality industry employs almost 18,000 people and over 70% of these employees during the pandemic risk losing or already lost their job. The authorities offered no real solution to this industry for surviving,” he stated.
The third attempt by the Government to resent the assumption of responsibility for a number of laws before Parliament also failed. The Parliament sitting arranged for July 6 didn’t take place because the quorum was absent. Fifty MPs of the 101 came to the assembly hall. As at the previous July 2 and 3 sittings that failed because the quorum was not present, MPs Ilan Șor and Ștefan Gațcan and the MPs of the PAS, PPPDA, Pro Moldova and the Shor Party were absent.
