The MPs of the Party of Socialists and of the Liberal Democratic Party left the assembly hall of Parliament in protest. The Socialists’ leader Igor Dodon said the faction decided to leave because the hearings to question the administration of the Prosecutor General’s Office, the National Anticorruption Center, the National Bank of Moldova and of the Ministry of Finance were postponed for next week. According to him, those who voted for the hearings to be held within a special sitting want the investigations into the bank frauds to be delayed. The Lib-Dems said they share this opinion and also left, IPN reports.
After the Socialists went out, Igor Dodon told the press that the Socialist group is indignant at the delay in elucidating the theft of the billions of lei from the banking system, which is wanted by those who voted for the hearings to be rescheduled. The Socialists will take part in the special sitting set for December 1 and will even come accompanied by hundreds of people who will monitor these hearings.
Before leaving the sitting, Lib-Dem Chiril Lucinschi said the postponement of the hearings is nothing else but an attempt to hush things up because the inquiring that was set initially for November 26 was to bring answers to questions put for a year already. Besides, the heads of the mentioned institutions repeatedly said that they are anytime ready to answer any question.
The decisions to leave the sitting were harshly criticized by the Communist, Democrats and Liberals. The Communists’ leader Vladimir Voronin said the actions of the Socialist MPs represent a show and these aim to generate subjects for their congress that was scheduled for November 29. The Lib-Dems also act so in order to have what to discuss at the protests staged by their colleagues from the Platform “Dignity and Truth”.
The chairman of the Democratic Party Marian Lupu said it’s not clear what the Lib-Dems protest at when this team managed the Ministry of Finance and their representatives formed part of the Administration Board of Banca de Economii when huge sums were stolen from the banking system. In such conditions, it is evident who bears political responsibility for the stealing. Such gestures are nothing else but political games.
The Liberals’ leader Mihai Ghimpu said these should have left during the six years when he cried that Banca de Economii was being robbed. Such gestures show that some fear that they could remain without parliamentary immunity.
