The ex-president of the Constitutional Court Victor Pușcaș considers the CC decision on the impossibility for the President to nominate a candidate for Prime Minister is correct and derives from the Constitution. The jurist noted this decision does not answer a very simple question and should have contained more details.
“I think the decision is very correct and is based on the constitutional norms. The President shouldn’t have gone to the Court as the Constitution clarifies this issue,” Victor Pușcaș was quoted by IPN as saying in a program on TV8 channel.
He noted that until all the working bodies of Parliament are not formed, no step can be taken and the Constitution stipulates this. The CC didn’t answer a very simple question, if the Parliament was constituted or not. “Many today do no understand who should convoke Parliament, who should bring the MPs together and what the agenda is,” stated the ex-president of the CC.
Political commentator Roman Mihăeș said the CC decision is beneficial as it clearly says that the administration of Parliament should be elected and the President could then propose a candidate for premiership or snap legislative elections will take place.
Public policy expert Ștefan Gligor said the CC decision comes to counteract and to prevent the political scenario that is most debated now in society, namely the formation of a PSRM-ACUM coalition or situational voting between these two political entities. “To make an eventual agreement between the PSRM and ACUM impossible, the Constitutional Court came with this decision,” he stated, noting preliminary understandings between the two entities could not thus exist before the election of the legislature’s leadership. Ștefan Gligor said such a decision from the CC was predictable.
On May 15, the Constitutional Court decided that the President may not nominate a prime ministerial candidate without a Parliament that has its leadership elected. The impossibility of Parliament to assemble in the absence of a body to convene it renders the President incapable of making the nomination.
