Update at 2.20 P.M., Party of Communists to contest the legality of the Alliance's decision to continue the first legislative meeting

Update at 2.20 p.m. - Constitutional Court Dumitru Pulbere has said he cannot make any statements about this challenge. Janeta Hanganu, a well-known Moldovan lawyer, however, said that the first legislative meeting was legal.

Party of Communists M.P. Vladimir Turcan told Jurnal de Chisinau that the his party will contest the legality of the Alliance for European Integration's decision to continue the first meeting of the legislature after the Communists asked for a ten-day break and left the building.

”According to the Constitution, we announced a break in order to form our faction. Any decision like the election of a Speaker can only be made after that happens. The fact that the Alliance for European Integration started the voting process is illegal and anti-constitutional. It is a direct step toward early elections, so we can see very well who wants the country to have new elections. Voting in Parliament has to be within the bounds of the law, and at this point, since our faction has not yet been formed, the rights of the 48 M.P.s [Imedia: belonging to the Party of Communists] have not been respected," Mr. Turcan suggested.