Appointments. Dismissals
Election of deputy Chairpersons of the Parliament:
- Serafim URECHEAN — first deputy Chairman, AMN parliamentarian;
- Marcel RADUCAN — PDM parliamentarian;
- Iurie TAP — PLDM parliamentarian;
An office of deputy Chairperson was reserved to PCRM, but the latter did not nominate any representative.
Members of the Parliament’s Permanent Bureau were nominated as follows:
- Maria POSTOICO, Vladimir TURCAN, Igor DODON and Grigore PETRENCO — PCRM parliamentarians;
- Vlad FILAT — PLDM parliamentarian;
- Anatol SALARU — PL parliamentarian;
- Marian LUPU — PDM parliamentarian;
- Veaceslav UNTILA — AMN parliamentarian.
The speaker, first deputy speaker and deputy speakers of the Parliament are ex-officio members of the Parliament’s Permanent Bureau.
The Parliament will have 9 permanent commissions:
- The legal commission for nominations and immunities, headed by Ion PLESCA, AMN;
- The commission for economy, budget and finance, ruled by Veaceslav IONITA, PLDM;
- The commission for national security, defence and public order led by Igor VREMEA, PCRM;
- The commission for foreign policy and European integration headed by Igor CORMAN, PDM;
- The commission for human rights and interethnic relations led by Vadim MISIN, PCRM;
- The commission for public administration, environment and regional development led by Valentin GUZNAC, PCRM;
- The commission for agriculture and food industry, led by Dmitri TODOROGLO, PCRM;
- The commission for social protection, health and family headed by Vladimir HOTINEANU, PLDM;
- The commission for culture, education, research, sport and mass media led by Corina FUSU, PL.
On September 11, the Parliament made a decision, taking notice of the resignation of Mr. Vladimir VORONIN and declaring the vacancy of the post of President of the Republic of Moldova. Under another parliamentary decision, Parliament Speaker Mihai GHIMPU was nominated interim President of Moldova.
On September 17, the Parliament took notice of the Government’s resignation in absence of the interim Prime Minister, Vitalie PIRLOG, who did not attend the sitting without any adequate motivation.
Legislative acts
Law on modification and completion of the law concerning the Government. Under the law, the cabinet of ministers will be made of 16 ministries and 8 central institutions. It will include the following ministries:
- Ministry of Economy;
- Ministry of Finance;
- Ministry of Justice;
- Interior Ministry;
- Ministry of Foreign Affairs and European Integration;
- Ministry of Defence;
- Ministry of Construction and Regional Development;
- Ministry of Agriculture and Food Industry;
- Ministry of Transportation and Road Infrastructure;
- Ministry of Environment;
- Ministry of Education;
- Ministry of Culture;
- Ministry of Labour, Social Protection and Family;
- Ministry of Health;
- Ministry of Youth and Sport;
- Ministry of Information Technologies and Communications.
The central institutions subordinated to the executive will be:
- The National Bureau of Statistics;
- The Agency for Land Relations and Cadastre;
- The Bureau of Interethnic Relations;
- The Border Guard Service;
- Moldsilva Agency;
- The Agency of Material Reserves;
- The Tourism Agency;
- The Centre for Combating Economic Crimes and Corruption.
The State Chancellery will be established and the office of State Minister will be introduced. As well, the draft modification to the law on Government lifts the restriction for cabinet members to have double citizenship. The new cabinet does not include the Ministry of Reintegration in charge with the Transnistrian settlement process. A deputy prime minister of the new Government will take over the tasks of this ministry.
Laws on ratification of some international conventions and agreements. They ratify several bilateral conventions on avoidance of double taxation (with Belgium, Portugal, and Ireland) and approve funding agreements.
Statements
Statement concerning the social-economic situation in the Republic of Moldova and necessary actions to cushion the effects of the crisis. The document adopted by the Parliament notes among others the following facts:
- the crisis has hit all economic fields, producing serious social effects;
- by taking irresponsible and unprofessional actions, the communist government has worsened the effects of the world financial crisis in the country and led industries, agriculture, construction, transportation, domestic and foreign trade, public finances to the bridge of collapse;
- the annual budgetary deficit in 2009 will be about 6 billion lei or 12 percent of GDP;
- the degradation of business and investment climates after incompetent actions of the communist government reduced the pace of foreign direct investments by 50 percent;
- the crediting debts worth over 1.5 billion lei raised by Government towards economic agents reduced the circulating funds and blocked the operation of some enterprises, reducing the exports by 30–35 percent;
- the Government delayed the implementation of anti-crisis measures.
Before the investiture of the new Government, the Parliament of Moldova urges the acting Government:
- To avoid financial deadlocks by honouring its commitments towards economic agents;
- To immediately stop any abusive state control on business environment, except for planned inspections;
- To apply a cautious fiscal administration;
- While executing the budget, to refrain from risky actions capable to break down the budgetary system and undermine the real economy;
- To relieve the crisis situation in the winemaking and vine growing sector.