The citizens have the right to initiate legislative referendums in the conditions specified by law. Until the procedure for initiating legislative referendums and confirming their results is regulated, Parliament will validate the texts put up for referendum and the referendum results. The Constitutional Court on October 2 passed the given judgement based on an application submitted by a group of Liberal-Democratic MPs, IPN reports.
The judgment is definitive and cannot be challenged and takes effected when it is adopted and is published in the Official Gazette.
The Court pronounced after the initiative group for annulling the mixed electoral system, through a group of MPs of the Liberal Democratic Party, filed an application on the people’s right to initiate referendums to the CC at the start of April. The representatives of the group said the CC was asked to say who the power in Moldova belongs to – the people or a group of persons with interests.
The NGO members reminded of the two failed attempts to register the initiative group for annulling the mixed electoral system. The constitutional judges were to say if the citizens have or do not have the right to initiate legislative referendums given that the Central Election Commission, when it refused to register the initiative group for the second time, made reference to an appraisal of the Parliament’s legal commission saying the legislative referendums are not expressly regulated in the Constitution.
The CEC on March 12 refused to register the initiative group for annulling the mixed electoral system for the second time by a majority of votes. It made reference to a previous CC judgement saying Parliament is the only institution that can initiate a referendum on the amendment of the legislation.
