Plahotniuc holds high post in parliament illegally - lawyer Corj
Moldovan freelance lawyer Mihai Corj maintains that Vladimir Plahotniuc, who is #2 personality in the Democratic Party, is holding the post of Parliament's First Deputy Speaker in contravention of the Constitution.
Lawyer Corj stated at a news conference in Infotag that the Constitution does not stipulate the existence of such post in the Parliament, and that the post was introduced in May 2009 by the then parliamentary Communist majority in defiance of the law.
Mihai Corj also presumes that in due time this actually non-existing post was held also by Vladimir Turcan and then by Serafim Urechean - also illicitly because Article 64 in the Constitution, according to which they were appointed, does not contain any mention that the Parliament has such a post - only Deputy Speakers.
Accordingly, Corj regards as illicit, too, the salary assigned to the First Deputy Speaker - 8,400 lei a month.
"How can an official receive a salary from the state, if his post has not been institutionalized legally? To prevent the repetition of such law violations in the future, I suggest that the Parliament should amend Article 64 in the Constitution in a way to introduce the First Deputy Speaker's position", said lawyer Corj.
He also presumes that in the current conditions of a severe economic crisis, when the State Budget is hardly managing with repaying pensions and salaries, it seems somewhat inappropriate to vote for institutionalizing the post of a deputy's aide.
"Moldova is not so well-off to afford a new luxury - paying quite high salaries to 101 aides, which will require some 10-15 million lei a year, and to provide equipped separate office rooms for such new bureaucrats. Citizens have elected deputies for protecting the people's rights and for passing laws, so I guess our parliamentarians should consider bills and take decisions by themselves, without assistants", presumes Mihai Corj.
Infotag
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