It was earlier announced that the first sitting of the Parliament’s autumn-winter session will take place on October 15, 2015. Also today, the Party of Socialists of the Republic of Moldova (PSRM) and the Political Party “Our Party” (PPPN) announced marches and large-scale protests before the Parliament Building, while the Chisinau City Hall made public its intention to sue the organizers of the protests if traffic on Stefan cel Mare Blvd is again disrupted, IPN reports.
The date of the first sitting was announced in the meeting of the Parliament’s Standing Bureau of October 8, 2015. According to the Bureau’s decision, in the first siting Prime Minister Valeriu Strelet will present information about the socioeconomic situation in the country. There will be rendered reports on the situation in the financial-banking sector, the energy sector and on the local general elections of this summer.
The official communique on the convocation of Parliament on October 15 was published last midnight.
Instead, the PSRM informed beforehand that the party, together with its supporters, on October 15 will mount a protest march under such slogans as “Down with the Alliance!”, “Billions back!”, and “The thieves in jail!”. The march will end in the square before the Parliament Building.
A similar announcement was made by the PPPN. According to the party, the demonstrators will come together near the central block of the Academy of Economic Education (61 Banulescu-Bodoni St) at 10am and at 10:30am will go on a march to the Parliament Building, where a protest will be staged.
On the eve, the Chisinau City Hall issued a press release by which its expresses its concern about the possible repeated blocking of Stefan cel Mare Blvd and its intention to sue the organizers of the protests, including because the Chisinau residents’ right to move on the streets of the city will be infringed.
“On October 12, 2015, the Party of Socialists of the Republic of Moldova submitted a preliminary statement to the Chisinau City Hall, whereby it informs that it intends to stage a protest in the square before the Parliament Building on October 15, 2015. The organizers also asked diverting the public transport from Stefan cel Mare si Sfant Blvd and preventing traffic from moving on the main artery of Chisinau between 12am and 6pm on October 15, 2015,” it is said in the press release.
In this connection, the municipality made the following statement: “The protest scheduled for October 15, 2015, in the form announced by the organizers, by halting traffic on Stefan cel Mare si Sfant Blvd, runs counter to the Law on Assembly. When public events are held, including meetings, the organizers take all the necessary measures not to cause disproportionate inconvenience to the participants or passersby. By this event, the organizers will hamper public transport, while the citizens of Chisinau will be unable to lawfully move on the streets of the city. The Chisinau City Hall will file a lawsuit so as to ban the holding of the protest by stopping traffic on Stefan cel Mare si Sfant Blvd.”
