DECLASSIFIED1 AS/Mon(2018)08rev 28 June 2018 Amondoc08rev_2018 or. Engl. Committee on the Honouring of Obligations and Commitments by Member States of the Council of Europe (Monitoring Committee) Honouring of obligations and commitments by the Republic of Moldova Information note by the co-rapporteurs on their fact-finding visit to Chișinău and Comrat (3-5 April 2018) Co-rapporteurs: Mr Egidijus VAREIKIS, Lithuania, Group of the European People’s Party, and Ms Maryvonne BLONDIN, France, Socialists, Democrats and Greens Group 1 Document declassified by the Monitoring Committee at its meeting on 27 June 2018. F – 67075 Strasbourg Cedex | e-mail:
[email protected] | Tel: + 33 3 88 41 2000 | Fax: +33 3 88 41 2733 AS/Mon(2018)08rev I. Introduction 1. We visited the Republic of Moldova from 3-5 April 2018. This was our first visit as co-rapporteurs since our appointment by the Monitoring Committee, respectively in April and November 2017. Our visit focused on the political developments since the last rapporteurs’ visit2 and the election of the President of the Republic on 13 November 2016. We also looked at the preparation of the 2018 parliamentary elections to be held this autumn. 2. In Chișinău, we met the President of the Republic, the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Reintegration, the Speaker of Parliament, the leaders of parliamentary and extra-parliamentary political forces, the Minister of Internal Affairs, the State Secretary of the Ministry of Justice, the President of the Constitutional Court, the General Prosecutor, the head of the Central Election Commission and the head of the National Anti-Corruption Centre.