The prosecutor general ordered to reject the registration of the application concerning the usurpation of power submitted by PAS MPs Sergiu Litvinenco and Virgiliu Pâslariuc and the institution of criminal proceedings for two reasons: because the MPs’ application, from procedural viewpoint, didn’t meet the requirements concerning the form and content of a document notifying of offenses, which are stipulated in the Penal Procedure Code, and because, from the angle of the material law, a reasonable suspicion about the commission of the denounced or other offenses does not derive from the circumstances invoked by the applicants, IPN reports, quoting a press release of the Prosecutor General’s Office (PGO).

The PGO said the application filed by PAS MPs Sergiu Litvinenco and Virgiliu Pâslariuc, by which the two asked to investigate the presupposed acts of usurpation of power by MPs on April 23, 2021 and to hold those to blame accountable, was examined as a matter of urgency.

On April 23, the MPs of the Party of Socialists and the For Moldova platform revoked the Parliament’s decision by which Domnica Manole was appointed CC judge and adopted another decision to name Boris Lupașcu in her place. The same day, President Maia Sandu convoked the Supreme Security Council, asking the PGO to investigate the actions from the angle of usurpation of power in the state. Later, PAS MPs Sergiu Litvinenco and Virgiliu Pâslariuc filed their application to the PGO.