Speaker of Parliament Andrian Candu decided to withdraw the draft laws on capital liberalization and tax amnesty. The announcement was placed by Candu on Facebook on February 28. He argued that a number of deficiencies were identified in the two bills. Therefore, the five MPs who signed these bills submitted a withdrawal application.

The draft laws were registered in Parliament on December 1, 2016 and were passed by a majority of votes in the first reading. The Speaker promised then that the legal and economic appraisals of local and foreign experts will be taken into account before the second reading.

The initiative, whose authors include Speaker Andrian Candu, was criticized by experts, who said that the proposed bills do not respect the principles of money laundering prevention, run counter to the agreement signed with the IMF and make tax evasion less risky.