Ion Chicu’s Party Prepares Motion to Remove Igor Grosu as Parliament Speaker

The Party of Development and Consolidation of Moldova has drafted a resolution to launch proceedings for the removal of Parliament Speaker Igor Grosu. MP Ion Chicu announced this at a briefing on November 9. According to Chicu, the document will be offered to other opposition MPs for their signatures before being formally registered with Parliament, rupor.md reports. “We will present this draft resolution to our opposition colleagues and invite them to sign it so that we can register the document with the parliamentary secretariat and discuss it at the next plenary sitting,” Chicu said. The MP accused Grosu and the parliamentary majority of systematically rejecting opposition proposals to add their draft laws to the agenda and hold hearings involving government representatives. Chicu also claimed that the majority was refusing to establish subcommittees tasked with overseeing the activities of the Security and Intelligence Service (SIS) and monitoring the implementation of rulings by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) and Moldova’s Constitutional Court. According to the MP, parliamentary rules stipulate that these subcommittees must be chaired by opposition representatives. Chicu said that on the morning of November 9, he had signed an appeal addressed to European Commissioner for Enlargement Marta Kos, Council of Europe Secretary General Alain Berset and President of the Venice Commission Marta Cartabia. In the letter, he asked them to intervene in the situation, citing the European Commission’s 2026 report, which, he said, highlighted insufficient dialogue between the parliamentary majority and the opposition. Chicu intends to personally hand the appeal to Kos at a meeting scheduled for 2 p.m. Chicu cited the November 4 decision by Parliament’s Standing Bureau as one of the reasons for his appeal. At that meeting, the bureau refused to place on the agenda a draft resolution launching proceedings to remove President Maia Sandu from office, which had been backed by 46 opposition MPs. The following day, Grosu said the document had also undergone legal scrutiny and that the initiative would not be placed on the agenda. The speaker also claimed that the initiative had been orchestrated from Moscow.