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The specialized parliamentary commission was to vote on Wednesday, November 9, on the report regarding the presentation and examination of the draft law in the second reading in the plenum. However, at the beginning of the meeting, the chairman of the commission, Democratic Party MP Raisa Apolischi, told the audience that the authors of the legislative initiative asked to postpone discussion: “Authors asked me to postpone examination of this draft law because they still are to finalize work so as to improve the document, as we had discussed at the previous meeting,” said Raisa Apolischi.
Asked by Media Azi, independent MP Gheorghe Mocanu, who, together with other MPs, had registered the draft law, told us that discussion was postponed until the end of November. “It is better to postpone it than have it be rejected or voted in a totally truncated version,” explained Mocanu.
In her turn, lawyer Tatiana Puiu, an author of the draft law, expressed her confusion in connection with this new postponement by the Parliamentary Commission on Legal Issues, Appointments and Immunity. She pointed out that “journalists need these changes and repeatedly asked to make this draft law a priority.” In the author’s opinion, “it would be logical to have a rapid adoption of the draft law in the second reading, as long as everyone is interested.”
The IJC organized an ample advocacy campaign to support this draft law, within which it organized round tables, debates, press clubs with participation of journalists, lawyers, media experts, MPs. At the same time, a petition was launched, in which signatories asked the parliament to finalize its work related to the adoption of modifications and additions to Law no. 982-XIV of May 11, 2000 on access to information. In the first reading, the draft law was voted in July 2016.
