Monitoring of activity of the Parliament of the Republic of Moldova

The chapter contains information about acts adopted by Parliament, commentaries on key drafts that are being debated, other legislative commentaries (of synthesis and on certain current topics). The archives include information on monitoring of activity of the Parliament starting 2001. The published information is informal.

Activity of the Parliament on October 1–31, 2011

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Events of major importance

Launching of procedure of election of Moldovan President

On October 20, the Parliament scheduled for November 18, 2011 the Moldovan presidential elections and set up a special commission to conduct them. Deputies representing the PLDM, PDM and PCRM factions validated the date of elections, while the PL faction refrained from voting, as this issue was not discussed by the council of the Alliance for European Integration.

Nominations. Dismissals

The Parliament stated the cease of membership of Mr. Igor Vremea to the Central Elector Commission upon his resignation;
Mr. Gheorghe Mihai was relieved from the office of director of the Information and Security Service of Moldova;
Mr. Mihail Cibotaru was relieved from the office of chairman of the National Commission of Financial Market, but preserved his quality of commission member.

Parliamentary control

Inquiry commission

The Parliament took notice of a report by the parliamentary inquiry commission which elucidates circumstances of voting and signing of the law on amendment and completion of the law concerning the licensed regulation of entrepreneurship (licensing of casinos). The report and materials concerned of the parliamentary inquiry commission were delivered to the Prosecutor-General’s Office to establish the offence component and further inform the Parliament within three months. The permanent bureau of the Parliament is expected to work out and adopt the Regulation of the Parliament Secretariat and instructions on circulation of draft legislative acts in the Parliament. The secretary-general of the Parliament is to deal with the issuing of service cards for functionaries of the Secretariat and to define precisely their tasks and competences, by strictly respecting the procedures of work with documents.

Transparency of parliamentary activity

The Parliament stopped releasing records of its plenary sittings, with the last document of this kind being published on its official website www.parlament.md on September 30, 2011. It is worth to note that several nongovernmental organisations have recently published reports on activity of the Parliament and its members, with most of them being based on records of parliamentary sittings.

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