{"id":448452,"date":"2020-07-07T18:23:47","date_gmt":"2020-07-07T18:23:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/?p=448452"},"modified":"2020-07-07T18:31:22","modified_gmt":"2020-07-07T18:31:22","slug":"critical-changes-blocked-in-moldovan-politics-the-constitutional-court-dictated-the-separation-of-powers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/critical-changes-blocked-in-moldovan-politics-the-constitutional-court-dictated-the-separation-of-powers\/","title":{"rendered":"Critical changes blocked in Moldovan politics – the Constitutional Court dictated the separation of powers"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading Time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>

On July 7, the Constitutional Court (CC) of the Republic of Moldova issued a decision,<\/a>\u00a0according to which,\u00a0the dissolution of the Parliament in the last six months of the presidential term of office is prohibited<\/strong> under any circumstances, even though the president resigns during this period. Moreover, according to the same decision,\u00a0holding parliamentary elections and presidential elections during the same period is prohibited. <\/strong>Simultaneous local elections are permitted though.<\/p>\n

The CC took this decision after 2 members of the Parliament (MPs) submitted 2 notifications in this regard. The institution explained its decision by the fact that the separation of powers<\/span> is needed, that meaning the temporal separation of the presidential and the parliamentary election campaigns.<\/p>\n

“We are on the verge of social revolts due to the deepening poverty, as well as the injustice in the country. The Constitutional Court issued a decision that leaves no room for interpretation. From now on, a Government capable of relaunching the economy and ensuring the safety of the people of Moldova must be formed,”<\/em> claimed<\/a> Andrian Candu<\/strong>, the member of Pro Moldova (a political party formed after the separation of democrats).<\/p>\n

The vice-president of the Dignity and Truth Platform Party, Alexandr Slusari<\/strong>, declared that the CC decision was predictable. “It was clear for us from the the very beginning\u00a0that simultaneous parliamentary and presidential elections is a wrong and strictly political path. […] If several MPs had acted in unison, without making use of a hidden agenda, the Chicu government would have long gone down in history,”<\/em> he said<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Socialists consider the current Parliament as being compromised, as it ‘sunk’ into many corruption scandals and the opposition boycotted legislature’s plenary sessions for several times already.\u00a0“We addressed the CC to make this clarification. We would have liked to save the citizens’ money and to hold the snap parliamentary elections on the same day as the presidential elections, on November 1,”<\/em><\/span> is mentioned in a press release<\/a> published on the page of the Party of Socialists of the Republic of Moldova.<\/p>\n

“In this context, we support the idea of President Igor Dodon that, the first decree signed by the head of state after the autumn presidential elections must be about the dissolution of the current compromised Parliament and holding snap parliamentary elections,”<\/em><\/span> is also declared in the press release.<\/p>\n

The socialists’ dissatisfaction is especially reasoned by 3 failed attempts of the Parliament to meet in plenary session<\/span>, during which the bills for which Chicu’s Government took responsibility before the Parliament were supposed to be communicated.\u00a0Opposition MPs urged the Government to withdraw its bills from Parliament and register them for parliamentary scrutiny.<\/p>\n

Photo: Facebook| The Parliament of the Republic of Moldova<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Reading Time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>On July 7, the Constitutional Court (CC) of the Republic of Moldova issued a decision,\u00a0according to which,\u00a0the dissolution of the Parliament in the last six months of the presidential term of office is prohibited under any circumstances, even though the president resigns during this period. Moreover, according to the same decision,\u00a0holding parliamentary elections and presidential […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":448453,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[380,616,100,80,35,27,233,256],"class_list":["post-448452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-constitutional-court","tag-decision","tag-elections","tag-government","tag-important","tag-moldova","tag-parliament","tag-power"],"content_social_share":"Reading Time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>

On July 7, the Constitutional Court (CC) of the Republic of Moldova issued a decision,<\/a>\u00a0according to which,\u00a0the dissolution of the Parliament in the last six months of the presidential term of office is prohibited<\/strong> under any circumstances, even though the president resigns during this period. Moreover, according to the same decision,\u00a0holding parliamentary elections and presidential elections during the same period is prohibited. <\/strong>Simultaneous local elections are permitted though.<\/p>\n

The CC took this decision after 2 members of the Parliament (MPs) submitted 2 notifications in this regard. The institution explained its decision by the fact that the separation of powers<\/span> is needed, that meaning the temporal separation of the presidential and the parliamentary election campaigns.<\/p>\n

“We are on the verge of social revolts due to the deepening poverty, as well as the injustice in the country. The Constitutional Court issued a decision that leaves no room for interpretation. From now on, a Government capable of relaunching the economy and ensuring the safety of the people of Moldova must be formed,”<\/em> claimed<\/a> Andrian Candu<\/strong>, the member of Pro Moldova (a political party formed after the separation of democrats).<\/p>\n

The vice-president of the Dignity and Truth Platform Party, Alexandr Slusari<\/strong>, declared that the CC decision was predictable. “It was clear for us from the the very beginning\u00a0that simultaneous parliamentary and presidential elections is a wrong and strictly political path. […] If several MPs had acted in unison, without making use of a hidden agenda, the Chicu government would have long gone down in history,”<\/em> he said<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Socialists consider the current Parliament as being compromised, as it ‘sunk’ into many corruption scandals and the opposition boycotted legislature’s plenary sessions for several times already.\u00a0“We addressed the CC to make this clarification. We would have liked to save the citizens’ money and to hold the snap parliamentary elections on the same day as the presidential elections, on November 1,”<\/em><\/span> is mentioned in a press release<\/a> published on the page of the Party of Socialists of the Republic of Moldova.<\/p>\n

“In this context, we support the idea of President Igor Dodon that, the first decree signed by the head of state after the autumn presidential elections must be about the dissolution of the current compromised Parliament and holding snap parliamentary elections,”<\/em><\/span> is also declared in the press release.<\/p>\n

The socialists’ dissatisfaction is especially reasoned by 3 failed attempts of the Parliament to meet in plenary session<\/span>, during which the bills for which Chicu’s Government took responsibility before the Parliament were supposed to be communicated.\u00a0Opposition MPs urged the Government to withdraw its bills from Parliament and register them for parliamentary scrutiny.<\/p>\n

Photo: Facebook| The Parliament of the Republic of Moldova<\/p>\n

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