The Communists’ initiative to dismiss President Nicolae Titofti is criticized by experts. In the program “Fabrika” on Publika TV channel, the invited experts said this initiative is unfounded and unsubstantiated, IPN reports.

Doctor of Constitutional Law Nicolae Osmochescu said the problems and arguments invoked by the Communists are false and baseless. The argument concerning the holding of a referendum on the signing of the Association Agreement with the EU is illogical as this is an intergovernmental accord and a plebiscite would be necessary only when Moldova joined the EU. There is also a technical problem as regards the holding of the referendum. The electoral legislation does not allow holding referendums 60 days before the start of the election campaign preceding the parliamentary elections.

The former judge of the Constitutional Court also said the Communists’ accusation that by the associating itself with the EU, Moldova will lose is neutrality status and will join NATO is false.  “Article 8 stipulates that for an international treaty containing provisions that run counter to the Constitution to take effect, the fundamental law must be modified. Also, the Communists cannot invoke the country’s neutrality when it does not exist de facto as we have foreign troops deployed on our territory,” stated Nicolae Osmochescu.

Political commentator Olga Nicolenco also criticized the parliamentary opposition’s initiative, saying it is related to the Communist Party’s election campaign. “I think that by this action, the Communists showed that they are in a crisis of ideas. Their initiative to dismiss the head of state is part of the strategies worked out by Tkachuk,” she stated.

Analyst Alexandru Cuznetsov dismissed the Communists’ initiative as groundless “It is nothing else but a rehearsal before the election campaign. Everything they said is irrelevant,” he noted.