{"id":442028,"date":"2016-04-15T13:44:11","date_gmt":"2016-04-15T13:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/?p=442028"},"modified":"2016-04-15T13:44:11","modified_gmt":"2016-04-15T13:44:11","slug":"appeal-court-rules-referendum-must-organized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/appeal-court-rules-referendum-must-organized\/","title":{"rendered":"Appeal Court rules that constitutional referendum must be organized in Moldova"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading Time: <\/span> < 1<\/span> minute<\/span><\/span>

The Appeal Court of Chi\u0219in\u0103u admitted the demand made by the initiative group Platform “Dignity and Truth” for organizing the constitutional referendum and canceled the decision made<\/a> by the Central Electoral Commission (CEC) from March 30th.<\/p>\n

Thus, the Court obliged the electoral body to launch a national referendum, for which more than 400 thousands citizens of Moldova signed. <\/p>\n

According to the decision of CEC, 405 thousands signatures were collected in the entire Moldova, but the condition of collecting \u201cat least 20 thousands signatures from at least half of the administrative units of second level\u201d wasn’t met.
\nIurie Ciocan, the head of CEC, declared then that only three units, Chi\u0219in\u0103u (42444), B\u0103l\u021bi (24359) and Orhei (22160), got the necessary number of signatures.<\/p>\n

The members of the initiative were claiming that the decision didn’t correspond to the reality. According to them, the Constitution referred to the form of the Republic in 1999, when Moldova had 12 districts, while now it has 39 units, from each it is nearly impossible to collect so many signatures. The project of changing the Constitution was thus signed by 405 thousand people, more than the 200 000 needed.<\/p>\n

The proposal of changing the Constitution made by the Platform includes changing the method of election of the President, changing the number of deputies from 101 to 71 and lifting the protection of the MPs.<\/p>\n

The decision of the Court was announced on March 14th and can be attacked in a superior court. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Reading Time: <\/span> < 1<\/span> minute<\/span><\/span>The Appeal Court of Chi\u0219in\u0103u admitted the demand made by the initiative group Platform “Dignity and Truth” for organizing the constitutional referendum and canceled the decision made by the Central Electoral Commission (CEC) from March 30th. Thus, the Court obliged the electoral body to launch a national referendum, for which more than 400 thousands citizens […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":442029,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-442028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-en","category-politics"],"content_social_share":"Reading Time: <\/span> < 1<\/span> minute<\/span><\/span>

The Appeal Court of Chi\u0219in\u0103u admitted the demand made by the initiative group Platform “Dignity and Truth” for organizing the constitutional referendum and canceled the decision made<\/a> by the Central Electoral Commission (CEC) from March 30th.<\/p>\n

Thus, the Court obliged the electoral body to launch a national referendum, for which more than 400 thousands citizens of Moldova signed. <\/p>\n

According to the decision of CEC, 405 thousands signatures were collected in the entire Moldova, but the condition of collecting \u201cat least 20 thousands signatures from at least half of the administrative units of second level\u201d wasn’t met.
\nIurie Ciocan, the head of CEC, declared then that only three units, Chi\u0219in\u0103u (42444), B\u0103l\u021bi (24359) and Orhei (22160), got the necessary number of signatures.<\/p>\n

The members of the initiative were claiming that the decision didn’t correspond to the reality. According to them, the Constitution referred to the form of the Republic in 1999, when Moldova had 12 districts, while now it has 39 units, from each it is nearly impossible to collect so many signatures. The project of changing the Constitution was thus signed by 405 thousand people, more than the 200 000 needed.<\/p>\n

The proposal of changing the Constitution made by the Platform includes changing the method of election of the President, changing the number of deputies from 101 to 71 and lifting the protection of the MPs.<\/p>\n

The decision of the Court was announced on March 14th and can be attacked in a superior court. <\/p>\n

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