The snap parliamentary elections can be held based on the proportional electoral system, but only a year after the modification of this system, which occurred on August 15, 2019. A decision to this effect was passed by the Constitutional Court on May 7, based on an application filed by MPs Sergiu Litvinenko, Alexandru Slusari and Vasile Bolea last October, IPN reports.
The Court said the existing provisions do not ban holding snap parliamentary elections according to the rules of another electoral system than the one used at the ordinary parliamentary elections, if the rule to publish the norms concerning the applied electoral system at least one year before the election day in the Official Gazette is obeyed.
“The legal provisions concerning the elections should be clear and predictable and a broad social consensus should exist on them. The amendments to this effect should take place sufficiently early so that they could be implemented successfully in the electoral process so as to avoid the violation of the right to vote and the right to be elected,” said CC president Domnica Manole, quoting the decision.
Parliament on August 15 decided to restore the proportional representation system after the MPs of the PDM, PSRM and PPEM, at the suggestion of President Igor Dodon, voted to introduce the mixed electoral system in 2017. The mixed system was annulled by 59 votes of the MPs of the ACUM Bloc and the PSRM.
