Election of Supreme Court of Justice president postponed again

The issue of the election of the president of the Supreme Court of Justice wasn’t included in the agenda of the November 8 meeting of the Supreme Council of Magistrates. The Council’s chairman Nicolae Timofti has told Info-Prim Neo that the election was put off for an indefinite period and will be included in the agenda when time comes. “There are a number of problems that must be examined additionally. The election date will be announced in the near future, when we are ready,” said Nicolae Timofti. He also said that the postponement is related to the challenge filed by the former president of the Supreme Court of Justice as regards the consultative notices of the Security and Information Service (SIS). Earlier, Ion Muruianu asked that the notices be declared illegal as the Constitutional Court ruled that the article of the Law on the Status of Judge, which provides for disciplinarily punishing the judge who examined a case that was later lost at the ECHR, is unconstitutional. Ion Muruianu said then that the SIS made reference to the eight cases judged by him, in which Moldova was convicted by the ECHR. Last week’s meeting of the Supreme Council of Magistrates, where the issue of the election of the Supreme Court of Justice president was to be examined, was adjourned as a quorum was not present. The presidency of the Supreme Court of Justices is disputed by Ion Muruinau and Moldova’s judge at the European Court of Human Rights Mihai Poalelungi.