If circumstances for mandatorily dissolving Parliament appear following a legislative deadlock or the impossibility of forming the Government during three months, the legislative body cannot work, says a Constitutional Court judgment passed based on an application filed by Democratic MPs Sergiu Sîrbu and Vladimir Cebotari on June 7, IPN reports.
Under the judgment, when circumstances for dissolving Parliament in the conditions stipulated in Article 85, paragraph 1 of the Constitution appear, the Head of State is obliged to immediately notify the Constitutional Court, so that this ascertains the given circumstances, and should later issue a decree to dissolve the legislature and to set the date of snap parliamentary elections.
The Court noted that any legislative act or action following the appearance of circumstances for the mandatory dissolution of Parliament goes against the constitutional provisions and is null and void. “The Parliament that is to be dissolved does not have a status and powers identical to those of the Parliament whose mandate expired,” runs the ruling.
The CC’s judgement is definitive, cannot be challenged, takes effect when it is passed and is published in the Official Gazette.
The MPs of the Bloc ACUM and of the Party of Socialists convoked Parliament for June 8, 12:30pm. The agenda includes the election of the Parliament Speaker and of the legislature’s working bodies and the approval of the Government’s work program and of the list of Cabinet members.
