The fact that the Liberal Party requested the Constitutional Court (CC) to check the constitutionality of the law on the mixed electoral system is welcome. At the same time, the Liberals went to the CC because they are disadvantaged by this law, said experts invited to the talks show “Expertise hour” on Jurnal TV channel, IPN reports.
“Maybe the Liberals conducted an additional, more detailed analysis and consulted specialists in the field, but it is a necessary step because there is no other way for declaring this law unconstitutional. From the very beginning this law was adopted with a series of violations of the basic human rights,” said doctor of constitutional law Alexandru Arseni.
Civic activist Valeriu Pasa said the Liberal MPs submitted a series of relevant arguments concerning the opportunity of adopting this law and observance of the democratic norms to the Constitutional Court. “When it is about the respecting of the Constitution, not so many arguments can be found to challenge the law, but there are yet enough arguments so that the CC will act correctly if it annuls this law,” he stated.
Analyst Corneliu Ciurea considers the Liberals went to the CC because this law disadvantages them. “As regards the uninominal voting system, they probably do not have too many chances of obtaining a good result in elections and thus continue the discussions,” he stated. According to him, those contradictions that were reported by the Liberal Party are counterbalanced by the constraints of the political system, such as the protection of national minorities, promotion of women and impossibility of ensuring proportionality.
In a challenge to the Constitutional Court, the Liberals said the law by which the proportional representation system was replaced by the mixed-member electoral system runs counter to a series of articles of the Constitution, in particular Article 38 on the Right to Vote and be Elected and Article 61 on the Election of Parliament.
