The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation says the United States and the European Union interfere in the internal political processes in Moldova and their political commitment contributes to greater polarization of Moldovan society. In this connection, it recommends the U.S. and the EU to refrain from interfering in Moldova’s internal affairs and not to go beyond the diplomatic ethnics norms, IPN reports.
In a comment, the Ministry says that last week the Western officials continued their attempts to become involved in the internal affairs of the Republic of Moldova for the reason that Moldova’s Parliament on April 23 adopted a statement on the recognition of the capture of the Constitutional Court, by which the MPs expressed their disagreement with the Court’s decision concerning the existence of conditions for dissolving Parliament. Another reason was the revoking by the MPs of the 2019 decision to appoint the current president of the Constitutional Court.
The comment notes that the President of the European Council Charles Michel and the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell expressed their “concern” about these decisions immediately after they were adopted, describing them as “an attack on the independence of the Constitutional Court” and “on the constitutional order” in Moldova, which is a parliamentary republic. The Head of the EU Delegation to Moldova Peter Michalko, U.S. Ambassador Derek Hogan and the embassies of a number of EU Member States in Moldova, including Romania and the Netherlands, didn’t stay away.
According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, in a significant way, while demanding that the Parliament of the Republic should obey the decisions of the Constitutional Court, the representatives of the U.S. and the EU seem to refuse to show the same respect for the actions of the Moldovan lawmakers. “Such selectivity in assessments confirms once again that the geopolitical course of Chisinau is more important for them than the “democratic values” they promote,” says the comment.
On April 23, the MPs of the Party of Socialists and the For Moldova platform revoked the Parliament’s decision by which Domnica Manole was appointed CC judge and adopted a decision to name Boris Lupașcu in her place. The same day, President Maia Sandu convened a meeting of the Supreme Security Council in which she requested the heads of the law enforcement agencies not to allow being engaged in anti-constitutional actions. She also requested the Prosecutor General’s Office to investigate the actions from the angle of usurpation of state power. Following a challenge filed by PAS MP Sergiu Litvinenco, the Constitutional Court in the evening suspended the two aforementioned Parliament decisions.
