Constitutional Court gives no answer to 'obvious problems': PLDM

The Constitutional Court (CC) refuses to say whether it's constitutional that Vladimir Voronin should be a deputy and a president at the same time. On May 25, parliamentary Vlad Filat lodged a notification with the CC to interpret articles 70 and 81 of the Constitution, which proclaim the incompatibility of those two functions. The Constitutional Court rejected the notification, arguing it “is beyond its competence”, Info-Prim Neo reports. On June 5, Liberal-Democrat (PLDM) leader Vlad Filat told a news conference Vladimir Voronin had had the moral duty to give up one of the offices, as a personal example of respecting the law. “The letter Mr. Filat received from the Constitutional Court we can qualify but insulting, since constitutional courts respond to notifications by decisions, not through letters,” said PLDM deputy president, Alexandru Tanase. “The notification requires to solve an problem the answer to which is obvious for you,” reads the CC's letter. The PLDM put up a bill to modify the Election Code before the snap elections. Invoking recommendations of international bodies, the PLDM wants to allow to form electoral blocs, to drop the electoral threshold from 6 to 4%, to insure the presence of political actors to the public broadcasters and to regulate the way the latter ones understand to cover the events attended by officials in electoral periods. Referring to the accusations brought about by the Communists (PCRM) against the parliamentary opposition parties about their possible involvement in the April 7 revolts, Vlad Filat has stated: “The events of 6-7 April were not organized by political parties. The speculations made we know very well by whom are on their account. The manipulations they try to make are to elucidated in an international probe that we have demanded repeatedly.” Commenting another idea promoted by the Communists that by not electing a the opposition parties have thrown the country into the economic crisis, the PLDM leader has said this crisis is a consequence of those 8 years of Communist rule: “Instead of professionally manage this crisis, the Communists chose to make electoral campaigning employing state resources, functionaries from the government.” “The attempts to lay the economic crisis from Moldova on the account of not electing a president is amusing,” said the PLDM president.