Moldovan communists want parliament speaker to resign
CHISINAU. March 13 (Interfax) - The opposition Party of Communists submitted on Wednesday a draft law on the resignation of Parliament Speaker Marian Lupu, says a party statement obtained by Interfax.
"A new link has been added to the endless chain of violations of the national constitution and democratic system. For the first time in the history of independent Moldova the parliamentary press service has cancelled a plenary meeting of the parliament and a session of the parliament's permanent bureau," it said.
The parliamentary press service cancelled both meetings scheduled for Thursday and Friday without explaining its reasons, the communists said.
The press service said only that a large number of bills required detailed analysis at parliamentary commissions.
The communists said it was "an act of demonstrative humiliation of the Moldovan legislative authorities, all parliamentary groups and voters and a proof of personal and political degradation of the parliament administration."
The Moldovan government was dismissed last week with a no-confidence vote of the communists, independent deputies and the Democratic Party - a member of the ruling Alliance for European Integration.
Experts presumed that the communists might propose the resignation of the Parliament Speaker and the Liberal Democratic Party of Vlad Filat, the Prime Minister of the dismissed Cabinet, could support the initiative.
Three factions of the ruling coalition are holding consultations in order to preserve the alliance and to form a new government.
If the new government is not formed within 45 days, the parliament will be dismissed and early elections will be held. The Party of Communists insists that must be done.
