The Constitutional Court’s decision concerning the election of the head of state by direct vote has evident effects of political technology and less jurisprudential effects, director of the Center for Political Research and Consultancy “Politicon” Anatol Taranu stated in an interview for Radio Free Europe. According to him, the public opinion is indeed scandalized because the political situation changed radically owing to a decision by the Court, which rather substitutes a decision of Parliament and enters an orbit that is improper to it, IPN reports.
“The public opinion has the palpable sensation that the Constitutional Court turned into a political player and its credibility is seriously questioned. Ultimately, the essence of the Constitutional Court’s decisions is related exclusively to jurisprudence, not politics. Regretfully, in the Republic of Moldova we witness an imbalance in the Court’s activity, namely towards the political factor and to the detriment of jurisprudence,” stated Anatol Taranu.
The political analyst noted that this decision by the Constitutional Court taken the country back to the situation of 2001, which in a way comes close absurdity. “This decision actually changes the terms of the political equation in the Republic of Moldova and changes them in a radical way. If until now the parties, the main political players built the political positions and activity based on particular realities, now that these realities changed radically, they have to modify policies on the way and to apply new tactics that are totally different from those used until recently. And here are reasonable suspicions that the Court’s decision was taken in accordance with particular interests,” said the director of “Politicon”.
Anatol Taranu also said that by this decision, the Constitutional Court offeres a respite to the government that is now in a rather difficult situation. “The continuation of protests and repeat of protests in a violent form were more than possible when the head of state was to be chosen by Parliament and this significantly disfavored the situation of the ruling parties. Now they gained a break by this decision by the Constitutional Court and can regroup forces and try to find a formula favorable to them in the election of the future President by the direct vote of the people,” he stated.
On March 4, the Constitutional Court decided that the constitutional amendments of 2000, which provide that the President is elected by Parliament, are unconstitutional and Moldova’s future President will be elected by direct, universal, freely expressed and secret vote by the people.
