The Constitutional Court today rejected President Igor Dodon’s request to clarify when he can dissolve the current hung Parliament. The Court cited a legal principle which says that if a rule is obvious, it doesn’t need interpretation. In other words, the Court suggested that it’s been crystal-clear all along that the 90 days’ countdown starts from the moment the results of the parliamentary elections are validated.
“The three months (90 days) period during which the newly elected Parliament must form a Government starts from the date when elections are validated”, says the CC ruling published on its website.
Technically, this answers President Dodon’s question, who had a dilemma between this option and the one where the three months’ countdown, he figured, could start on the day Parliament held its inaugural sitting. If the latter case were to be true, the parliamentary groups would still had time until June 21 to invest a Government and avoid snap elections.
But now, as ACUM lawmaker Sergiu Litvinenco calculated, even if the impossible happens and a Cabinet is appointed today or tomorrow, the Constitutional Court could invalidate it, as in light of today’s ruling the deadline expired yesterday.
