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The Constitutional Court has validated the mandate of lawmaker of Victoria Dobrovolscaia, who attended the parliamentary elections as part of the Moldovan Party of Communists (PCRM). Dobrovolscaia is the 10th alternate candidate from the PCRM list who became legislator.

Legislative documents

Law on state social insurance budget for 2006. The social insurance budget will include 4,504,000,000 lei overall, by over 28.5 percent more than in 2005. The single birth indemnity for uninsured mothers will account for 800 lei. The contribution of employers to the salary payment will count for 26 percent, while of employees for 3 percent. Private entrepreneurs and founders of private enterprises will pay a contribution of 2,013 lei. The monthly average pension will grow up to about 331 lei in 2006.

Decision on the legislative programme for 2005–2009. The document contains a list of over 200 legislative documents that the Parliament will examine the next four years, in order to ensure the fulfilment of tasks and objectives of the governing programme, national strategies and programmes. Earlier, the Parliament adopted the June 16, 2005 Decision # 122-XVI, committing itself to award priority to examination of legislative documents on organisation and regulation of the process of adjustment of the Republic of Moldova’s legislation to the community acquis.

Law on modification of certain legislative documents regulating the regime of identity papers. The law stipulates the introduction of passports containing biometrical data (blood group, colour of eyes, and fingerprint at the request) in the national system of identity documents. The amendments call for annulment of the possibility to prolong the passports when their term runs off and issuing of new documents.

Decision on approval of the budget of the National Commission for Securities (CNVM). The budget, which will be made up from taxes and fees collected by CNVM from subjects of the securities market for different procedures and authorisations, will include next year 8.2 million lei in revenue; 6.5 million lei in spending; while additional sources of about 2 million lei will remain available to CNVM for 2007.

Decision on participation of military of the National Army of Moldova in the international operation in Iraq. This document gave green light to the participation of a Moldovan military contingent in the international humanitarian operation in Iraq, with necessary individual hardware and weaponry. This decision was adopted at a secret sitting, though this decision of the Supreme Security Council and a governmental decision on submission of the draft decision to the Parliament have earlier been made public. Members of some political parties represented in the Parliament reported that the Parliament has adopted this decision, and they disapproved “the hiding of talks on this topic from public opinion and citizens of the Republic of Moldova.” No close sitting of the legislature took place in the past five years and the Parliament has adopted another two similar decisions on this topic (#276-XV from July 3, 2003 and # 57-XV from February 27, 2004) at public sittings.

Parliamentary control

• The Parliament has heard a report on activity of the executive, unveiled by Premier Vasile Tarlev, for the first time this year. The report contained information about social-economic indicators for the first nine months of this year. According to the prime minister, the executive has fulfilled most of tasks included in the governing programme, it achieved a certain economic growth (GDP rose by 8.5 percent compared with 2005), collected additional financial sources to the budget (more than one billion lei). However, the executive admits that the quality of economic growth is unsatisfactory, but motivates it through the unsettled Transnistrian conflict (lack of a single customs, economic, financial and bank area) and considers that the governmental team still has a potential which will be used. Representatives of opposition, who raised questions and spoke out about hearing of the executive, launched very bitter criticism against activity of the cabinet of ministers, saying that the governmental team is incapable to fulfil the tasks of Moldova at this stage and it should step down. The criticism envisaged, in particular:
  • the lack of perspectives of a sustained economic growth;
  • the preponderance of consumption economy;
  • the insufficient support for agriculture and production sector;
  • the persistent corruption in governmental structures, the lack of transparency in activity of executive;
  • the insufficient financing of healthcare, education and culture;
  • the blocking of external financing;
  • the irresolute foreign policy, etc.
  
  Representatives of the parliamentary majority appreciated the activity of executive positively in general, but demanded more execution discipline, modernisation, fulfilment of tasks established by legislative documents on time, efficient administration of public financial resources, avoidance to adopt illegal decisions, and presentation of draft laws to the Parliament in the due time.
• The parliamentary commission for human rights held a special sitting on respect for rights of detainees in the Republic of Moldova. It found out that the existing situation in this field unfits the international norms and requires several solutions: reduction of crowds in penitentiary institutions; health insurance; insurance with food; introduction of education measures and employment of former detainees. The signalled shortcomings are related to insufficient financing of the system of penitentiary institutions (44 percent of needs), old buildings of penitentiary institutions, which unfit modern standards for endowment of confinement places. About 250 million lei (19.5 million dollars) is needed to build a new preventive detention facility besides necessary spending for purchase of the field, while only 127 million lei (9.9 million dollars) was allocated this year for financing of the entire justice system.
• Lawmakers of the Alliance Our Moldova (AMN) and Social Liberal Party (PSL), (former member of the electoral bloc AMN) sought the start of the process of dismissal of Moldovan president, saying that he has violated the Constitution and legislation in effect through “his backbiting statements against opposition, meddling in the municipal electoral campaign in favour of certain candidates.” Under provisions of Article 89 of Constitution, the Parliament can dismiss the Moldovan president with the votes of 2/3 lawmakers. At least one third of parliamentarians can initiate the dismissal. The parliamentary group of PSL includes three lawmakers, while the AMN faction comprises 16 deputies (after 7 parliamentarians of the Social-Democratic wing of AMN left the party last October, they did not announce whether they withdraw from the parliamentary faction as well, while the official website of the Parliament maintained the information about full composition of the faction). Respectively, the 26 mandates of supporters of the idea to start the procedure of dismissal are insufficient, while lawmakers from other parliamentary factions did not manifest readiness to support this idea, though some of them regretted the statements of the chief of state. However, even if the necessary number of initiators is gathered, they will have to appeal the Constitutional Court, the only competent court in charge with establishing circumstances that justify the dismissal of the president of Moldova.
• The commission for economy, budget and finance has heard the Ministry of Economy and Trade, Ministry of Finances and the National Bank of Moldova regarding the stage of implementation of the Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (EGPRSP). It was established during talks that some progress related to fiscal and finance management sectors was registered, but there are many shortcomings regarding industrial growth and macroeconomic perspectives, while indicators of a sustained rise are absent. Also, the commission outlined the need to resume a financing agreement with the IMF, which would generate positive processes for economic development of the country and would contribute to implementation of objectives indicated by EGPRSP.

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