Olesea Stamate, about leaving the seat of member of Parliament: I don't know if I will do it
Olesea Stamate claims she is still unsure if she will resign from her position as a member of Parliament, as requested by the Action and Solidarity Party leadership yesterday after she was excluded from the party. Later, she said, she would make her decision public. The statements were made on the Punctul pe azi show on TVR Moldova.
"I have not yet left the seat of member of Parliament, and I do not know if I will. So, as I promised in the electoral campaign and in all my communications with citizens, I will continue to fight for justice and for fairness. How I will do this, we will see. So I will communicate shortly," said Stamate.
Former chairperson of the Parliamentary Committee on Legal Affairs, Appointments and Immunities stated that the amendments to the amnesty legislation, which she proposed, did not establish a milder punishment for prisoners sentenced to life than that provided for in the Criminal Code.
"At the time we approved this law, the term in the criminal code was, if he served 30 years, he could be considered for release, and in the amnesty law it was exactly the commutation to 30 years. So they were absolutely identical. The amnesty law did not favour life prisoners in any way, let that be very clear. Subsequently, the criminal law was amended in 2024 through a project of the Ministry of Justice, in which this 30-year term in article 91 was reduced to 25 years. It was a larger project to amend the criminal code, through which criminal policy was humanised," said the deputy of the Parliament.
According to PAS, Olesea Stamate proposed three amendments to the Amnesty Law, voted in 2021, through which the possibility of commuting life imprisonment to imprisonment for 30 years was introduced. This amendment made it possible to apply the provisions of Article 91, which allows for the conditional release of those who have served two-thirds of their prison term.
Initially, in the Amnesty Law, the reduction of the sentence did not apply to life prisoners. Yesterday, Parliament voted on legislative amendments that would exclude the possibility of benefiting from two options simultaneously – commutation of the sentence to amnesty and conditional release in the case of life prisoners.
