The opposition Moldovan Communist Party has presented an ultimatum to the governing Alliance for European Integration, promising to get the MCP parliamentary faction back to the forum for regular work and to vote for amending the Constitution, if only Acting President Mihai Ghimpu signs on Thursday morning a presidential decree on parliament dissolution.
After the forum’s extraordinary plenary sitting that ended on Wednesday night, Communist MP Iurie Muntean refused to explain what his party would do if such a decree is not signed.
“This will be just a proof of usurpation of state power so as to achieve the ruling coalition’s objective – to bring the election holding possibility to the naught”, Muntean said.
He explained why the rest members of the MCP faction did not come to parliament on Wednesday night: because the session was convened unexpectedly, because most of the faction of 43 were in the localities meeting with voters, and because the rest who happened to be in Chisinau could not just rush to parliament in 5 minutes, when they were invited there all of a sudden in the evening.
Speaker Ghimpu refused to go deep into polemic with Munteanu or journalists. He only stated, “The Parliament has voted for holding a referendum on September 5, and there is no way back”.