Parliament came together for an emergency sitting to examine a bill to supplement the Election Code with provisions regarding the banning of members of unconstitutional parties form running in elections following a decision taken by the Constitutional Court. The MPs of the Bloc of Communists and Socialists (BCS) said that it goes to settling of old political and party scores and left the sitting, IPN reports.
Deputy Speaker of Parliament Vlad Batrîncea noted that they not only once said that the Constitutional Court should not become a political player and should defend the constitutional order and be far from political struggles. “We haven’t been heard and now see absolute absurdity when the Constitutional Court adopts a decision and then another one and the Court’s image is today seriously damaged,” said the Socialist MP.
According to him, the BCS group also repeatedly demanded not to extend the state of emergency so that Parliament becomes functional, but the Commission for Exceptional Situations, which was constituted to deal with energy crises, now takes decisions also as regards the Election Code, which is the legislature’s duty.
Vlad Batrîncea said that a struggle between two camps is taking place and the image and independence of the state institutions are affected as a result.
The Socialist MP also said that the BCS group has its own political struggle with the ruling party and also with opposition parties. But they want all the parties to exist in a competitive space and to have access to the media and all the parties that meet the legal requirements should run in elections.
The agenda of the Parliament’s sitting includes only one bill that refers to the Election Code after the Constitutional Court declared unconstitutional the provisions saying that persons who were members of the executive body of a party or held elective posts on behalf of the party when the given party was declared unconstitutional by the CC cannot stand as a candidate at elections within five years of the day the decision was pronounced.
