Democratic MP Sergiu Sîrbu’s request to the Constitutional Court to interpret a number of Constitution articles and pronounce on the risk of a power vacuum should be analyzed more from political than legal viewpoint. This could be an instrument for pressing the parties that entered Parliament into forming a government coalition. The issue was developed in the talk show “Expertise hour” on Jurnal TV channel, IPN reports.
Constitutional law expert Teodor Cârnaț said that by this request, the PDM showed it does not know the Constitution as the formulated questions attack parliamentarianism and democracy. From political angle, this is rather a scarecrow to reach a compromise and form the future coalition.
Political commentator Igor Volnitski noted the PDM has the capacity to form a government even in the current situation. “They transmitted a message, trying to exert slight pressure. I expect the PDM will file one more application and inquire what happens if the seats of 90 MPs are validated, not of 101 MPs and what the majority in this case will be. And the Court will be free to pronounce. The current and eventual applications should be analyzed from political standpoint,” he said
Political pundit Corneliu Ciurea said that by its request to the Constitutional Court, the PDM puts the Socialists and the others who think about snap elections in check. “I don’t know to what extent this brings the denouement and the formation of an alliance closer as the political factor for me means a lot because, if Vladimir Putin tells Igor Dodon to stay firm on the barricades, it will be hard to form an alliance,” he noted.
Jurist Pavel Midrigan said everyone thinks about the danger of snap elections. “For ACUM, these are not a big danger. They could get even more votes if they unite all the forces around them. The Democratic Party and the Party of Socialists should think whether they should start to yield and come closer or should go towards snap elections that could result in a similar situation,” stated the jurist.
Democrat Sergiu Sîrbu formally asked the Constitutional Court to tell whether a caretaker Government, in a “vacuum of legislative power” situation, may adopt ordinary and organic laws so as to “ensure continuity of governance, economic and financial security, national security and defense capability”.
