MPs of Communists and Socialists Bloc faction left extraordinary session of Parliament

Chisinau, Aug. 17 /MOLDPRES/- MPs of the Communists and Socialists Bloc (BCS) faction left today's extraordinary session of the Parliament in protest.

They were dissatisfied that none of the submitted proposals were accepted, "and the agenda includes exclusively political issues".

"We cannot sit in this room and pretend that we are involved in the legislative process when in reality all the voices of the opposition are ignored", BCS fraction's head Vlad Batrîncea said.

Speaker Igor Grosu criticized the opposition's gesture and proposed that at the next meetings in which the opposition MPs will not be present, they should not be remunerated.

The five deputies, formerly of the Shor party, declared unconstitutional, do not participate in the extraordinary meeting. The decision was motivated that it "does not represent an emergency".

According to the parliament's Regulations, if the Legislature is not in regular session, it can meet in extraordinary or special sessions, at the request of the President of the Republic of Moldova, the speaker or a third of the deputies.

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