The Party “Dignity and Truth Platform” (PPPDA) challenged in the Constitutional Court two laws that were adopted by Parliament on Decmeber16, namely the law on languages and the law on mobile drugstores, IPN reports.
MP Liviu Vovc in a press briefing on December 21 said that by opening mobile drugstores, the rules of keeping drugs are violated and counterfeit drugs are promoted. Another bill that will lead to a rise in the prices of medicines and to the disappearance of cheap drugs was adopted by using falsified documents when the bill was given a second reading. The Prosecutor General’s Office was notified of falsification of documents.
MP Dinu Plîngău said the amended law on languages discourages the population from studying the official language and runs counter to the Constitution. Its implementation in the absence of budget funds is impossible.
PPPDA leader Andrei Năstase noted that the current government cannot manage the health crisis and thus wants to turn the people against each other with a law on the languages spoken on the territory of the Republic of Moldova that was adopted without serious discussions. They don’t care that this law divides the people as they just want to obtain political advantages. The law on mobile drugstores is aimed not at ensuring high-quality and accessible drugs for the people, but at introducing schemes to make money, which they would control, to the detriment of the quality of life and health of people.
Adopted in two readings on December 16, the law on the functioning of languages spoken on Moldova’s territory was promulgated by Igor Dodon two days later. The incumbent President said this law restores the status of Russian as a language of interethnic communication, as it was earlier, during over two decades.
The legislative proposal on mobile drugstores was given a final reading on December 16. The academic community of the Faculty of Pharmacy of “Nicolae Testemițanu” State University of Medicine and Pharmacy said this is a move aimed at undermining the pharmaceutical system by discrediting the pharmacists and by aiming to remove this specific sector from under control. “A community drugstore and its branch for performing pharmaceutical activity should strictly meet the requirements, the services should be provided by pharmacists, while the drugstores should have an office, a license, a sanitary authorization, an accreditation certificate and many others. The aforementioned cannot be ensured by a mobile pharmaceutical unit,” noted the academicians.
