The credibility of Constitutional Court (CC) is the biggest problem of Moldova’s political system. If this credibility is absent, all the other things are probably worthless, president of the Party “Democratic Action” Mihai Godea was quoted by IPN as saying in the program “Emphasis on today” on TVR Moldova channel.
“Given that the Constitution does not have a guarantor, an institution that would implement and protect the supreme law, the whole political system of the Republic of Moldova is now in question,” stated the politician.
Mihai Godea noted that one of the two CC judgments were passed under pressure, namely the decision on the time limit for forming a parliamentary majority and the declaring of the formed majority unconstitutional and the decision by which the Court annulled its own judgments. “Therefore, I don’t know how credible the Constitutional Court is now. A scapegoat was needed and this was the High Court, but putting this institution in such a situation, no matter by who, was a very big mistake,” he stated.
The Party of Socialists’ jurist Fadei Nagachevski said that the Constitutional Court by its acts declared war on the people as Moldova’s Parliament is the people’s expression. The fact that the CC banned the legislature from adopting laws and decisions is the most serious one. “This way, the CC deprived the Parliament of the Republic of Moldova of capacity to act until the next legislative body was to be validated, as they said. In fact, we were deprived of Parliament as of June 8. When a republic is deprived of Parliament, this republic is suspended as a parliamentary republic cannot exist without a legislature,” noted the jurist.
Political commentator Victor Ciobanu said the CC members should have resigned by now. The Court in the recent past presented itself to be anti-constitutional and as a branch of the Democratic Party. “This was the posture of this institution where five judges are former members of the PDM, who fulfilled all the political orders and practically worked by remote control. I think this is not only a national shame. It is also an international shame,” he stated.
On June 15, the Constitutional Court annulled the decisions it took during June 7-9. These referred to the deadline after which the President could dissolve the new Parliament and the unconstitutionality of the newly formed parliamentary majority and Government.
