The Information and Security Service of Moldova (SIS) will pass under full parliamentary control and the President will be deprived of the powers to coordinate SIS activities.
This is provided for by amendments to the Law on the Information and Security Service, adopted by the parliament in the first reading. According to the amendments, the activities of the SIS will be under parliamentary control and the provisions stipulating that the SIS activities are coordinated by the President of Moldova within his powers, and the head of the SIS is appointed and dismissed by the parliament on the proposal of the head of state, will be removed from the law. The new version of the law stipulates that the director of the SIS will be appointed to office for a period of 5 years by the parliament at the proposal of at least 10 MPs, and also dismissed by the parliament, at the proposal of at least 1/3 of the MPs. The parliamentary opposition announced that it will challenge the adopted law in the Constitutional Court, as well as a number of other documents adopted on December 3. // 04.12.2020 - InfoMarket.
