The MPs of the Party of Socialists said the current legislative body should be dissolved. According to them, they say the Republic of Moldova is a parliamentary state, but neither the ministers nor the prosecutor general can be quested in Parliament because the Government and the Prosecutor General’s Office are protected by the ruling alliance. The no-confidence motion against the foreign affairs minister that was rejected on June 22 was a test for those who claim that they are in the opposition, IPN reports.
After the plenary sitting, Socialist MP Vlad Batrancea told the press that the Socialists intended to discuss the work of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and European Integration. They wanted to ask Andrei Galbur how the Ministry, by its actions, can attack the Head of State who was elected directly by the people, why the ambassadors from Brussels or Bucharest can say that Moldova is a temporary state, why he fulfills political orders and why persons without higher education were hired at the Ministry.
“We had very interesting information for the public opinion about how the ambassadors are chosen and how places in embassies are sold. We wanted to ask: Mister Minister Galbur, why does the Republic of Moldova allocate tens of millions of euros for maintaining embassies, but the level of foreign direct investment in the economy is such a low one? What does the Ministry of Foreign Affairs do?” asked Vlad Batrancea.
In another development, the Socialist MP said the motion they proposed wasn’t supported by the Lib-Dems and the Communists, who claim that they are in the opposition, because the dismissal of the Government leads to early elections, while these would lead to the political death of the PCRM and PLDM.
The no-confidence motion proposed by the Socialist MPs against Minister of Foreign Affairs and European Integration Andrei Galbur wasn’t adopted. Speaker of Parliament Andrian Candu said that under the legislation, the motion is considered rejected if a quorum is not present at the sitting. The announcement was made when only the Socialist and Communist MPs remained in the assembly hall.
