The coquetting between the Democratic Party (PDM) and the Party of Socialists (PDM) in adopting the law to replace the electoral system generated inequities and constitutional difficulties, consider representatives of the Liberal Party. The opponents of the Liberals say there were no reasons for going to the Constitutional Court to challenge the given law. The issue was developed in the talk show “Emphasis on today” on TVR Moldova channel, IPN reports.

Deputy chairman of the Liberal Party Valeriu Munteanu said that when the debates were very heated in the process of adopting the law and different social players submitted proposals, the PSRM and PDM tried to coquette and shared different exceptions to a number of social categories, which ultimately led to a conglomerate of inequities and constitutional difficulties.

“The authors ignored particular constitutional imperatives when adopting the mixed-member electoral system with powerful uninominal elements, while the arguments we brought before the High Court are pertinent because a number of articles of the Constitution of the Republic of Moldova are violated,” stated Valeriu Munteanu.

Analyst Roman Mihaies said almost all the recommendations of the Venice Commission were accepted for the second reading. None of the arguments presented by the Liberal Party to the Constitutional Court shows that the right to elect and be elected was violated, at least through the angle of the recommendations of the Venice Commission and the Council of Europe. “I was one of those who proposed instituting quotas for the Transnistrian region, for Moldovans abroad, as it is in Romania, for example,” stated the analyst.

In a challenge to the Constitutional Court, the Liberals say the law by which the proportional representation system was replaced by the mixed-member electoral system runs counter to a series of articles of the Constitution, in particular Article 38 on the Right to Vote and be Elected and Article 61 on the Election of Parliament.