Deputies meet in session: May 8 - the day of commemoration and reconciliation, on the agenda
Deputies meet in plenary session. The agenda includes the draft law regarding the consecration of May 8 as a day of commemoration and reconciliation in memory of those who fell in the Second World War. The Parliament will also examine the execution of the budgets for 2022.
According to the report of the Culture, Education, Research, Youth, Sports and Mass Media Commission, the legislative initiative regarding the establishment of May 8 as a day of commemoration and reconciliation was proposed to eliminate the confusion that persists between the actual date of May 8 of signing the act recapitulation of Nazi Germany and May 9 - Victory Day instituted by the Soviet Union.
In Thursday's plenary session, the vice-president of the Parliament, Vlad Bătrîncea, BCS deputy, requested the exclusion of this project from the agenda. The socialist deputy qualified this legislative initiative as a challenge that will divide society. Bătrîncea's proposal was not supported in plenary, and got only 23 votes.
Also today, the deputies will also approve a Decision to mark the Cancer Survivor's Day on the first Sunday of June. The deputies' agenda also includes the draft law on the selection and evaluation of judges, the draft law on access to information of public interest, changes in the State Budget law for 2023 by increasing the revenue and expenditure parts by over 1 billion 400 million lei.
The meeting starts at 10:00 a.m. and is broadcast live on the social networks of Public Broadcaster "Teleradio-Moldova".
