The Constitutional Court on April 27 ruled that the law of December 3 by which the Security and Intelligence Service (SIS) was transferred from the President’s subordination under the management of Parliament is unconstitutional. A challenge to this effect was filed by MPs of the PAS and PPPDA, IPN reports.

PAS MP Sergiu Litvinenco in the challenge noted that the exclusion of the duty to coordinate the activity of the SIS from the President’s powers wasn’t justified in the argumentations note. Also, the transfer seriously affects the SIS’s independence and freedom to act within the limits of the institutional powers. The challenged law also generates the risk of re-subordination of the SIS according to political criteria and seriously affects the sovereignty and state power, the basic human rights, democracy and political pluralism, the economic or financial security of the state.

The CC decision is definitive, cannot be disputed, takes effect when it is adopted and is published in the Official Gazette.

The law was adopted by the Socialist and For Moldova MPs amid an atmosphere of altercations and disorder on December 3, 2020. The opposition blocked the central rostrum and the microphone of Deputy Speaker Vlad Batrîncea, who chaired the sitting.