First chairman of Constitutional Court to be remembered in memorial tablet

The Government will allocate, from the Reserve Fund, 40,000 lei for installing a tablet in memory of the first chairman of the Constitutional Court (CC) of Moldova, jurist and Professor Pavel Barbalat. Pavel Barbalat was one of the first politicians who assumed the difficult mission to create the legislative framework of RM. First president of RM, Mircea Snegur, remembers that the CC was created and became the most independent judicial body in the process of gaining Moldova’s independence. “CC proved itself to be a real protector of the provisions of the Supreme Law. I strongly appreciate the competence of the late Pavel Barbalat, the first chairman of the Court, as well as of the current chairman Victor Puscas, two great jurists of Moldova,” Mircea Snegur noted. Pavel Barbalat, along with Vladimir Voronin, ran for the presidency of Moldova at the elections on December 1, 2000, being promoted by the center-right parliamentary groups of Chisinau and a part of the independent deputies. The elections were considered void. On 5 December, none of the candidates got 61 votes, therefore repeated elections were announced. The elections on 21 December were not deliberative, and on 31 December, President Petru Lucinschi issued a Decree regarding the dissolving of the Parliament and establishing the anticipated parliamentary elections on 25 February 2001, on the ground of the incapacity to elect the head of the state as the constitutional procedure and norms required. In May, Pavel Barbalat would have turned 70.