The political retrospective of 2021

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02 Jan. 2022 / 17:17

The political retrospective of 2021

Early parliamentary elections, the inauguration of the Gavriliţa government, the detention and criminal investigation of Attorney General Alexandr Stoianoglo are just some of the important events in 2021 that have heated up the political scene in the Republic of Moldova, reports Moldova 1.

In February, the head of state Maia Sandu proposed Natalia Gavriliţa's candidacy for prime minister, but the old composition of the Parliament gave her zero votes. Gavriliţa came with criticism towards the then parliamentary majority.

"We have a Parliament with broken agreements, in the name of continuing the corruption schemes. We have a parliament with deputies who changed the party three times and each time they remained in power," said Gavriliţa.

The head of state's consultations with the parliamentary parties followed, after which Maia Sandu repeatedly submitted Natalia Gavriliţa's candidacy. This decision, however, was declared unconstitutional, on the grounds that the Socialists already had another candidate. That was Mariana Durleşteanu, who was ready to lead a provisional government.

However, even during the new consultations, Durleşteanu announced that she was withdrawing her candidacy, which gave Maia Sandu the opportunity to start the early parliamentary elections.

"A few minutes ago, the decree dissolving the current Parliament. With this decision, we have opened the way for the citizens to be able to elect a new Parliament, which will serve the interests of the country and of the people," said Maia Sandu, President of the Republic of Moldova.

In the July 11 elections, 23 electoral contestants fought. The election, however, was won by the Action and Solidarity Party (PAS), which won 63 seats in the new legislature. The other two parliamentary components are the faction of the Bloc of Communists and Socialists with 32 seats and the faction of the ŞOR Party with six seats.

"According to the information presented by the CEC, all the candidates included in the lists are eligible for the position of deputy and have submitted statements on their own responsibility that they are not banned from running," announced Domnica Manole, President of the Constitutional Court.

After the new legislature was formed, Igor Grosu was elected President of the Parliament, and Natalia Gavriţa became Prime Minister.

One of the events that heated up Moldova's political scene in 2021 was the arrest of Attorney General Alexandr Stoianoglo. Suspended from office, Stoianoglo is being investigated on five counts. He is accused of abuse of power, passive corruption, providing false information, and the file on the damage to the General Prosecutor's Office's budget has already been sent to court. Alexandr Stoianoglo pleads not guilty, declaring that it was a political quarrel.

On December 23, the interim general prosecutor, Dumitru Robu, requested in the Parliament the lifting of the immunity of the deputy Ilan Şor, in connection with his investigation on nine charges. Şor described these actions as a show of bad taste.

"I request the lifting of the parliamentary immunity of the deputy Ilan Şor in view of the urgent criminal prosecution actions required in order to avoid, destroy, conceal, modify, substitute evidence, prevent the alienation of property, resulting from the crime," announced Dumitru Robu, interim general prosecutor.

At the end of 2021, following hearings at the General Prosecutor's Office, the honorary president of PSRM, Igor Dodon, was assigned the status of suspect in the Energocom case. According to the prosecutor's office, Dodon allegedly participated, in 2008, in a fraudulent scheme to import electricity, as a result of which the state was harmed by over 120 million lei. Dodon pleads not guilty.

"I said that I am ready to collaborate with those who are conducting this investigation in any field, here we are ready to come and discuss because I have no guilt in this case," said Igor Dodon, honorary president of PSRM.

By the end of the year, the Parliament also voted on the State Budget Law for 2022. The document establishes, among other things, the same compensations for the payment of the gas consumption bill, but also the financing of new road modernization programs. The draft budget has been criticized by the parliamentary opposition, especially in connection with the salary increase for Constitutional Court judges.

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