Chisinau Municipal Council member and Chairman of the Ravnopraviye [Equal Rights] Socio-Political Movement Valery Klimenko has stood up with an idea to create an “International Scientific Commission for Studying the Consequences of the Totalitarian, Dictatorial and Anti-Democratic Regimes in the Republic of Moldova Territory in the 20th Century”. He is convinced that such an international team, unlike the already working Commission for Assessment and Condemnation of the Totalitarian Communist Regime in Moldova, will necessarily produce objective results.

Veaceslav Stavila, a member of the Commission for Assessment and Condemnation of the Totalitarian Communist Regime in Moldova, maintains the number of victims of the “Soviet occupation of Moldova” is substantially greater than what used to be announced and believed before.

The idea to start electing president in Moldova by 50% + 1 votes of parliamentarians [i.e. by 52-of-101 deputies in parliament] can easily lead to usurping the presidential power and to illegitimacy of the head of state, presume free-lance lawyers Anatol Plugaru [ex-minister of state security in 1991-1992] and Mihai Petrache [former chairman of the Centrist Union of Moldova].

The Institute for Human Rights in Moldova (IDOM) is demanding that the Supreme Magistracy Chamber’s Disciplinary College must objectively consider the so-called ‘case of judge Dorin Popovici’ of the Sectorul Buiucani Court of Chisinau.

Should an early parliamentary election be held in Moldova before the end of 2010, the Christian Democratic Popular Party shall take part in it with a serious electoral program in hands, Genadie Vaculovschi of the CDPP leadership stated at a news conference in Infotag today.

Chairman of the Demnitate trade union Mihai Lascu proposes to suspend all the criminal suits, which are connected with the April 2009 disturbances, against policemen and other participants.

Beginning from March 1, 2010, three Moldovan citizens more will pass training in German Bundestag in the frame of the International Parliamentary Scholarship program (IPS), which three representatives of Moldova pass yearly since 2008.

Anatol Plugaru [Moldova’s Minister of State Security in 1991-1992] and Mihai Petrache [ex-Chairman of the Centrist Union of Moldova] have stood up with an idea that presidential functions should be entrusted to incumbent Prime Minister Vlad Filat.

Sergiu Mocanu, the leader of the Popular Action Movement and former Adviser-at-Large to President Vladimir Voronin, has expressed indignation that the Prosecutor General's Office has not yet closed down the case against him, though yet in November 2009 the Ministry of Justice officially stated to international organizations that Mocanu’s arrest had been illegitimate.

The Parliament of Moldova has in fact deprived citizens of the possibility to defend their consumer rights, Petru Gutul, Chairman of the all-republican “Consumer Protection” citizens’ association, stated at a news conference in Infotag today.

The Moldovan Humanists Party is demanding from the Government to ensure higher living standards for the Moldovan population and create proper conditions for continuous improvement of life quality.

Head of Moldovan Union of Dogbreeders Olga Serita demands from the Ministry of Justice to reconsider the decision of the former leadership of the Ministry of Justice, owing to which Serghei Volinet became unlawfully the Chairman of the Moldovan Union of Dogbreeders.

About 80% of Moldovan migrants, who came to work to the EU member countries for a long period, received the legal status of migrants, who work on the basis of labor contracts. In the CIS 39.6% of migrants work on the basis of labor contracts and 56.9% - without any labor contracts”, the Survey on Moldovan Migrants, which was presented on a news conference on Friday in Infotag, say.