Moldova: call for meaningful dialogue with the oppositionIn a draft resolution adopted on 9 September 2009 at a meeting in Paris, the Monitoring Committee calls upon the new dominant coalition and the opposition in Moldova to enter into meaningful negotiations to break the deadlock and bring about the election of the President. Once the new state institutions are put in place, they should straightaway work on a far-reaching reform, including constitutional amendments if relevant, in order to establish genuine democratic safeguards against similar institutional and political deadlock situations, the co-rapporteurs on the functioning of democratic institutions in Moldova, Josette Durrieu (France, SOC) and Egidijus Vareikis (Lithuania, EPP/CD) stressed. Their report will be debated on Tuesday 29 September by PACE during its plenary session. The draft resolution is available in English. |