The Constitutional Court (CC) accepted the request to suspend the effect of the law to abrogate the legislation that authorized the sale of the site of the former Republic Stadium to the U.S. for construction of a New Embassy Compound. MPs Dinu Plîngău and Maria Ciobanu asked that the Socialists’ bill adopted by MPs on December 3 in two readings should be subject to constitutionality control, IPN reports.

The MPs said that when they filed the application, the challenged law hadn’t been promulgated by the President and published in the Official Gazette. The Court noted that when the requisition was examined, the law had been promulgated by presidential decree and published in the Official Gazette.

According to Dinu Plîngău and Maria Ciobanu, the Republic of Moldova risks starting a diplomatic conflict for non-observance of the obligations deriving from the bilateral agreements signed with the U.S. and risks damaging its international reputation and not benefitting from investment and strategic partnerships. The given law affects democracy, the separation and cooperation of powers and the state’s economic and financial security.

At the same time, the CC rejected the same MPs’ request to suspend the law by which the Security and Intelligence Service was transferred from the President’s control under the Parliament’s control as the Court already passed a suspension decision based on another challenge.

Also, the Court rejected the MPs’ request to suspend Parliament Decision of December 3, 2020, concerning the numerical and nominal composition of the legislature’s Standing Bureau. The Court held that if the challenged decision is suspended, the Parliament’s Standing Bureau, in a renewed composition, will be unable to arrange the legislative body’s sittings and to compile the agenda of the sittings and the legislature’s work could be thus blocked.