Former minister of security Anatol Plugaru called on the judges of the Constitutional Court to apply common standards when the Constitution is broken. He has told IPN that he agrees with the decision that the President’s decree by which the Liberal-Democratic leader Vlad Filat was nominated as a candidate for Prime Minister was unconstitutional. But he considers that the judges should act in the same way in the case of other politicians who do not respect the Constitution.
“The behavior towards the politicians should be the same. We don’t like Vlad Filat and hit him, while others we like and do nothing to them. It turned out that the death of a man during hunting in the Domneasca Forest and its results were generated by a series of system problems. Parliament did nothing, but the Constitutional Court should take steps. The same is true about the case when the authorities usurped the power, refusing to dissolve Parliament after they didn’t manage to elect the head of state.
Anatol Plugaru sent an inquiry letter to the Constitutional Court, saying that unlike a large number of European states, the Constitutional Court in Moldova is not obliged to react to the signals of violation of the Constitution given by the people. “Our Court does not see and hear. It keeps silent when those who should notify it do not do it because they defy the supreme law and the rule of law principles. They argue that the Constitution bans the Court from taking action on its own initiative. This is political hypocrisy, while the guaranteeing of the supremacy of the Constitution is a badly camouflaged fiction,” the former security minister said.
Plugaru anticipates that he will receive a superficial answer to his letter as he made an inquiry as an ordinary citizen. He urged the MPs to use his letter to tell the Court to have an equal attitude to all those who break the supreme law.
