The parliamentary group of the Liberal Democratic Party (PLDM) requested the Constitutional Court to determine if the procedure to withdraw the immunity of MP Vlad Filat was constitutional. In its application, the faction specifies the violations identified by the Lib-Dems in the process of adopting the immunity annulment decision, IPN reports.
Among these are the violation of the presumption of innocence and violations of the Law on the Status of MP, the Parliament’s Regulations, the Law on Legal Acts and of the European Convention on Human Rights.
“The Liberal-Democratic faction filed a challenge to the Constitutional Court, by which it asked suspending Decision No. 172 until the case is deal with and examining this challenge as a matter of urgency. The coming of the prosecutor general to Parliament and the game he played at the central rostrum are provided in no legal act. The prosecutor shouldn’t have come to make a show. He had to hand over his requisition to the Speaker,” said MP Tudor Deliu.
According to the lawmaker, the law stipulates that after the MPs are informed, the Parliament’s commission on appointments and immunities has 15 days to examine the prosecutor general’s requisition. “In this case, it is violated the right to efficient defense because the commission members were unable to familiarize themselves with all the submitted materials. Neither Vlad Filat could examine them to formulate his position. The hurry in which the procedure was performed makes us believe that something was done intentionally and we asked the Constitutional Court to pronounce on this. The prosecutor distributed the report with the depositions of Ilan Shor to the MPs. But this report contained evidence that can influence the inquiry,” stated Tudor Deliu.
The Lib-Dems noted the fact that the Speaker allowed the prosecutor general to speak in Parliament on the issue and the way in which the prosecutor general requested withdrawing the immunity run counter to the parliamentary procedures and to a number of articles of the Parliament’s Regulations.
The head of the Liberal-Democratic group Vlad Filat was deprived of parliamentary immunity over alleged influence peddling by the votes of 79 lawmakers.
