The MPs of the Bloc of Communists and Socialists challenged in the Constitutional Court the amendments to the law on the prosecution service that were earlier adopted by the PAS parliamentary majority, IPN reports, quoting a press release of the Party of Socialists.

Socialist MP Vasile Bolea said that he and the president of the Party of Communists Vladimir Voronin asked the Constitutional Court to determine the constitutionality of law No.102 of August 24, 2021 to amend the law on the prosecution service. “We consider this law violates the constitutional provisions, seriously encroaches on the constitutional principle of separation of powers in the state and interferes in the activity of the Superior Council of Prosecutors. What the current governments wants to do is to subjugate the judiciary and the prosecution service. They want to have a pocket prosecutor general,” said Vasile Bolea.

The amendments made to the law on the prosecution service introduce a mechanism for assessing the activity of the prosecutor general by constituting an evaluation commission. If the commission describes the prosecutor general’s activity as “unsatisfactory”, the Superior Council of Prosecutors will propose that the President should dismiss this. By a bill, PAS also modified the composition of the Superior Council of Prosecutors, reducing the number of members from 15 to 12 by excluding the prosecutor general, the prosecutor of ATU Gagauzia and the chairperson of the Lawyers Union.

Earlier this month, President Maia Sandu promulgated the law, saying the amendments made by the Party of Action and Solidarity to the law on the prosecution service are designed not to subjugate the Prosecutor General’s Office e to a political party, but to free it from the captivity of criminal groups. “We now do not have rule of law for civil society to come and say that we encroach on the independence of a state with the rule of law. We are at the stage when we must build the rule of law. We should build it first and will then make sure that it is not at the beck and call of politicians and is not politically influenced. We now have the remains of Plahontiuc’s system, with judges and prosecutors who form part of criminal groups,” Maia Sandu stated in the talk show “In Depth” on ProTV Chisinau channel.