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About 9,300 people visit Moldova's parliament in 2022

18:12 | 23.01.2023 Category: Political

Chisinau, 23 January /MOLDPRES/ - The parliament in 2022 received a record number of visitors – 9,274 people and almost 60 per cent of them were children and students.  

According to the parliament’s communication and public relations department, this is the largest number of visitors since the legislative institution has been organizing guided visits for citizens. Eighty per cent of the people came to parliament on excursion for the first time.   

As many as 401 visits were organized in 2022 and the people participated in 27 plenary meetings of the parliament. At the same time, every fifth visit included discussions with MPs.  

Most visitors, 73.6 per cent, are residents of the Moldovan capital and over 15 per cent – from Moldova’s districts. Also, over 11 per cent of the visitors were foreign citizens from Italy, Germany, Switzerland and the USA. On the same period, 400 Ukrainian refugees visited the parliament.   

Since the launch of the programme of visits to parliament in 2014, over 45,000 people have come on excursion, in order to learn more about the parliament’s work.   

 

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