The Government’s opinion about the necessity of involving the Constitutional Court (CC) in the solving of a problem concerning institutional relations is incorrect, consider representatives of the President of Moldova. On the other hand, representatives of the Government say the executive went to the Constitutional Court with the request to clarify the minister appointment procedure in a move to avoid political interpretations. Such differing opinions were stated in the talk show “Fabrika” on Publika TV channel, IPN reports.

Maxim Lebedinski, adviser on legal matters to President Igor Dodon, said the Government requested the Constitutional Court to pronounce on the absence of provisions concerning the appointment of ministers by the President from the supreme law. “The Government itself admits that it is an institutional, not a constitutional problem. The role of the High Court is to intervene in constitutional matters and to balance out the powers when there is a constitutional problem, not a communication problem between two public authorities,” he stated.

The Democratic Party’s spokesman Vitalie Gamurari said the fact that the procedure for electing the President was modified does not mean that the form of government in Moldova was also modified and it was transformed from a parliamentary republic into a semi-presidential one. The Government asked the Constitutional Court to interpret the supreme law’s provisions about the President’s powers related to the appointment of ministers so as to avoid political interpretations.