The Socialist and Liberal-Democratic MPs criticize the Government’s initiative to transfer the State Guard and Protection Service from the President’s administration under the executive’s management. Speaker of Parliament Andrian Candu told the journalists that the bill to reform the Security and Intelligence Service (SIS) should have been discussed in the December 2 sitting of the legislature, but this didn’t take place due to a lack of quorum after three parliamentary groups left the assembly hall in protest, IPN reports.
Andrian Candu said the goal of the bill is to institute grater societal control on secret services, as it is in the whole world. The parliamentary alliance wants functional and independent institutions and it is the legislative body that will decide which institution will manage the State Guard and Protection Service.
Socialist MP Vlad Batrancea criticized the initiative to remove the Service from the subordination of the Head of State. He said the government tries ‘in secret’ to limit the powers of the President. “This does not scare us. The final solution is to dissolve this Parliament and to call early parliamentary elections,” he stated.
The head of the Liberal-Democratic group Tudor Deliu said if the State Guard and Protection Service is incorporated in the SIS, its powers will be reduced, but the law provides that this service is autonomous. The Lib-Dems have a reserved attitude to the proposal to reform the SIS.
