President Igor Dodon requested the Constitutional Court to determine the constitutionality of provisions of the law to amend the Broadcasting Code by which the transmission of news, feature, military and political radio and TV programs produced in other states than the EU, the U.S., Canada and the states that ratified the European Convention on Transfrontier Television is banned, IPN reports.

“I consider the law encroaches upon the principles of democracy and directly violates the basic human rights guaranteed by the Constitution and the European Convention on Human Rights, namely the right to the freedom of expression and opinion, freedom of the press and others,” Igor Dodon wrote on a social networking site.

The bill to amend the Broadcasting Code proposed by the MPs of the Democratic Party and of the European People’s Party of Moldova was readopted by Parliament in two readings by 61 votes in favor on December 7 after President Dodon refused to promulgate it. According to the law, if a draft law is adopted the second time, the President is obliged to promulgate it.